Word Meanings - WRETCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy

Additional info about word: WRETCH

wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun Cowper. 2. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch. Note: Wretch is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt, and sometimes to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing. "Poor wretch was never frighted so." Drayton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WRETCH)

• Curmudgeon
• Miscreant
• wretch
• rascal
• churl

Related words: (words related to WRETCH)

• RASCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.
• RASCAL
  racaille, F. racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler to scrape, LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L. radere, rasum. 1. One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also,
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• RASCALLY
  Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.
• RASCALLION
  A low, mean wretch
• CHURLISHLY
  In a churlish manner.
• CHURLISHNESS
  Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
• CURMUDGEON
  An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving. (more info) prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain
• RASCALESS
  A female rascal.
• WRETCH
  wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy
• CHURL
  husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow
• CHURLY
  Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow.
• CHURLISH
  1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish
• MISCREANT
  1. One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers. 2. One not restrained by Christian principles;
• CURMUDGEONLY
  Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
• WRETCHFUL
  Wretched. Wyclif.
• WRETCHEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
• WRETCHLESS
  Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster.
• RASCALDOM
  State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively. Emerson.
• WRETCHED
  1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the
• SUPRASCALPULAR; SUPRASCALPULARY
  Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula.
• WRAPRASCAL
  A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.