Wretched

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: ταλαίπωρος (Strong'S #5005 — Adjective — talaiporos — tal-ah'ee-po-ros )

"distressed, miserable, wretched," is used in  Romans 7:24;  Revelation 3:17 . Cp. talaiporia, "misery," and talaiporeo (see Afflict).

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

King James Dictionary

Wretched, a.

1. Very miserable sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief.

The wretched find no friends.

2. Calamitous very afflicting as the wretched condition of slaves in Algiers. 3. Worthless paltry very poor or mean as a wretched poem a wretched cabin. 4. Despicable hatefully vile and contemptible. He was guilty of wretched ingratitude.