Dictionary entry
Wretched
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛtʃɪd/
Pronunciation
/ˈrɛtʃɪd/
Myanmar Meaning
စိတ်ဆင်းရဲသော ၊ စိတ်မချမ်းသာဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော။ မကျမ်းမာသော။ အရည်အသွေးညံ့ဖြင်းသော။ စက်ဆုပ်ဖွယ် ဖြစ်သော။ ကြေနပ်ဖွယ်မရှိသော။ မုန်းစရာကောင်းသော။
Definition
wretched /'retʃÇd/ adj ၁။ စိတ္မခ်မ္းသာေသာ။ စိတ္ဆင္းရဲေသာ။ I felt wretched about not being able to help her. ❍ His migraine made him feel wretched (ie ill and miserable) all morning. ❍ people living in wretched poverty. ၂။ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ။ စုတ္ခ်ာခ်ာ။ wretched weather. ၃။ ( infml ) (စိတ္ကသိကေအာက္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ ေသာက္သံုးမက်တဲ့။ The wretched car won't start again! ❍ I'm sick of the whole wretched business. wretchedly adv, wretchedness n [U]: a life of utter wretchedness.
Examples
- ‘The role of A Vijayaraghavan
- MP
- was significant in securing Indian citizenship for these wretched people.’
- ‘The man was poor and wretched and had no claim upon the ruler
- no right even to lift a solicitous hand.’
- ‘He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak
- shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.’
- ‘When these wretched people arrived at Grosse Ile it was ill-equipped to deal with such a humanitarian disaster.’
- ‘He was taken aback by the sheer number of places they had found containing such wretched people.’
- ‘Pentheus tore away his headband from his hair
- and ripped the feminine disguise from his frame that his wretched mother might recognize him!’
- ‘But he doesn't make you think that the people were a poor
- wretched mass of unwashed humanity.’
- ‘I have also still got the flu to some extent
- and I am feeling slightly less than wretched
- but I was wretched as recently as yesterday.’
- ‘Harry's wretched past revisits him vividly
- trailing behind it issues of betrayal
- death
- punishment and revenge.’
- ‘Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed
- as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged
- even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.’
- ‘A just man maintains his life as a wretched beggar while another
- stained by well known crimes
- accumulates the highest honours.’
- ‘Although they were all being tenderly cared for by wonderful nurses
- with plenty of personal attention and attempts to comfort and stimulate them
- they were absolutely wretched.’
- ‘The only glimmer of hope for these wretched people is the emergence of organised resistance to the present policies.’
- ‘You aren't the complicated villain nor the wretched hero.’
- ‘A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people.’
- ‘Have not the rich been guilty of ignoring the cry of the wretched and the poor in this little world we share?’
- ‘The poor wretched beast was tied up on a rope that was too short to let him lie down.’
- ‘I must have cut a wretched figure
- filthy and sunburnt
- to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.’
- ‘Needless to say
- Zinfer's very first day on Planet Earth had turned out to be an unbelievably wretched experience for the poor little prince.’
- ‘Her eyes had widened considerably upon taking in the sight the wretched man
- and she feared she might be sick from looking at his numerous injuries.’