Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Adjective
S: (adj) deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched (of very poor quality or condition) "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
W: (adj) superior [Indirect via inferior] (of high or superior quality or performance) "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"
S: (adj) miserable, wretched (characterized by physical misery) "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
S: (adj) miserable, suffering, wretched (very unhappy; full of misery) "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
S: (adj) despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched (morally reprehensible) "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
S: (adj) hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched (deserving or inciting pity) "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
W: (n) miserableness [Related to: miserable] (a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune) "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
W: (n) pathos [Related to: pathetic] (a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others) "the blind are too often objects of pity"
W: (n) pity [Related to: piteous] (a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others) "the blind are too often objects of pity"
W: (n) pity [Related to: piteous] (an unfortunate development) "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
W: (n) wretchedness [Related to: wretched] (a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune) "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"