1. (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

2. (a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.

3. (a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.