Wretched - English meaning

adjective

Experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering.

Usage examples:

He gave an anguished cry

verb

Be extremely distressed about something.

Usage examples:

I spent the next two weeks anguishing about whether i'd made the right decision

adjective

Having or showing extreme pain or suffering

Usage examples:

The anguished song at the end was beautiful

adjective

Extremely unhappy about the failure or end of something

adjective

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.

Usage examples:

A desolate pennine moor

verb

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty.

Usage examples:

The droughts that desolated the dry plains

adjective

(of a place) having no living things; empty

Usage examples:

A desolate landscape, when her son left for a year abroad, she felt desolate.

adjective

Showing the loss of all hope.

Usage examples:

He gave a despairing little shrug

verb

Lose or be without hope.

Usage examples:

We should not despair

adjective

Showing or feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation

Usage examples:

A despairing glance/cry, with every day that passed he became ever more despairing.

verb

Destroy or ruin.

Usage examples:

The city was devastated by a huge earthquake

adjective

Completely destroyed

Usage examples:

Thousands of people have left their devastated villages and fled to the mountains., she was utterly…

adjective

Very shocked and upset

Usage examples:

She was utterly devastated when her husband died.

adjective

Very unhappy and unable to be comforted.

Usage examples:

She left fritz looking disconsolate

adjective

Extremely sad and disappointed

Usage examples:

The players were disconsolate after losing what should have been an easy game.

adjective

Suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

Usage examples:

I was distressed at the news of his death

verb

Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

Usage examples:

I didn't mean to distress you

adjective

Distressed debts, etc. are sold to investors at very low prices because there is a high risk that the company owing them will be unable to pay them back. investors buy them because they hope to get back more from the company owing the money than they have paid for the debts

Usage examples:

The texas-based firm buys distressed assets from financial institutions and liquidates them at a pr…

verb

Perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified).

Usage examples:

Very little work has been done in this field

noun

Used before a verb (except be, can, may, ought, shall, will ) in questions and negative statements.

Usage examples:

Do you have any pets?

noun

Variant spelling of doh1.

adjective

(of a person's eyes) looking downwards.

Usage examples:

Her modestly downcast eyes

noun

A shaft dug in a mine for extra ventilation.

Usage examples:

The probable explanation is, that the return air was leaking across into the downcast shaft at vari…

adjective

Looking down, usually because of being shy or sad

verb

Feel intense sorrow.

Usage examples:

She grieved for her father

noun

An overseer, manager, or bailiff on a farm.

adjective

Feeling very sad because someone has died

Usage examples:

Grieving relatives

adjective

Suffering from overwhelming distress.

Usage examples:

He was heartbroken at the thought of leaving the house

adjective

Feeling very sad or disappointed

Usage examples:

Alexis was heartbroken when she was dropped from the team.

adjective

(of a person or their grief) not able to be comforted or alleviated.

Usage examples:

His widow, jane, was inconsolable

adjective

So sad or disappointed that it is impossible for anyone to make you feel better

Usage examples:

They were inconsolable after the death of their young son.

adjective

(of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.

Usage examples:

Their happiness made anne feel even more miserable

adjective

Very unhappy, or causing much unhappiness

Usage examples:

They can make your life miserable if they want to., the forecast is for miserable weather today.

noun

The expression of sorrow for someone's death.

Usage examples:

She's still in mourning after the death of her husband

verb

Feel or show sorrow for the death of (someone), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.

Usage examples:

Isobel mourned her husband

noun

Great sadness felt because someone has died

Usage examples:

Shops were closed as a sign of mourning for the king., he was in mourning for his wife., the mourni…

adjective

Feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy.

Usage examples:

I was sad and subdued

adjective

(of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.

abbreviation

Seasonal affective disorder.

adjective

Feeling or showing grief.

Usage examples:

She looked at him with sorrowful eyes

adjective

Very sad

Usage examples:

With a sorrowful sigh she folded the letter and put it away.

verb

Feel or display deep distress.

Usage examples:

A woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband

adjective

Feeling or displaying deep distress or sadness.

Usage examples:

The sorrowing widower found it hard to relate to his sons

verb

Present participle of sorrow

Usage examples:

For years she sorrowed over her missing son.

adjective

Not happy.

Usage examples:

An unhappy marriage

adjective

Not feeling pleasure or satisfaction

Usage examples:

It was an unhappy time of her life., they were unhappy about their hotel room (= did not like it) a…