Difference between Pitiful and Wretched

PITIFUL vs WRETCHED: ADJECTIVE

Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. : pathetic.
Very small (of an amount or number).
Filled with pity or compassion.
Inspiring or deserving pity.
Deserving or inciting pity
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
Feeling pity; merciful.
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Bad; unfortunate

Characterized by physical misery
Very unhappy; full of misery
Of very poor quality or condition
Deserving or inciting pity
In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
Characterized by or attended with misery or woe.
Of a poor or mean character; dismal.
Contemptible; despicable.
Of very inferior quality.
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Morally reprehensible

Bad
Unfortunate
To be pitied for its littleness or meanness; paltry; insignificant; contemptible; despicable.
Exciting or fitted to excite pity or compassion; miserable; deplorable; sad: as, a pitiful condition; a pitiful look.
Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a feeling of sorrow and sympathy for the distressed.

Characterized by or causing misery or unhappiness; very afflicting, annoying, or uncomfortable; distressingly bad in condition or relation: as, the wretched condition of a prison; wretched weather; a wretched prospect.
Of miserable character or quality; despicable; contemptible; reprehensible; strongly objectionable: used of persons or things: as, a wretched blunderer or quibbler; a wretched quibble; wretched stuff.
Worthless; paltry; very poor, mean, inefficient, unsatisfactory, unskilful, or the like: as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin; a wretched defense or piece of work.
=Syn.1. Forlorn, woebegone.
Vile, sorry, shabby, pitiful.
Very unhappy
Full of misery
Suffering from or affected by extreme misery or distress; deeply afflicted; miserable; unhappy.

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

Inferior, Unfortunate, Suffering, Sad, Misfortunate, Deplorable, Piteous, Hapless, Poor, Execrable, Pitiable, Pathetic, Woeful, Pitiful, Miserable

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

Inferior, Unfortunate, Suffering, Sad, Misfortunate, Deplorable, Piteous, Hapless, Poor, Execrable, Pitiable, Pathetic, Woeful, Pitiful, Miserable

Canaanite provincials as pitiful and of little consequence.
Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
He will be seen naked in pitiful disorder.
We are not excessively pitiful of his case.
Poor pitiful me, how I had been wronged.
But the birth itself is still more pitiful.
All he does is cry poor pitiful me.
Really pitiful players may bring a croquet mallet.
Jesus is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The women first break their men into a pitiful betas, unless they already were pitiful.

TYBALT Thou wretched boy, I am for you!
Plaguefall Rigged Plagueborers cast Wretched Phlegm less frequently.
Then Sekmem fell, together with the wretched Retenu.
Somebody had leaked this wretched paper to Lawford.
But that I struck those who were wretched!
It bears a form both wretched and malevolent.
May hisinstructions save us from such wretched incompetence.
He is the host of the nationally syndicated Wretched TV and Wretched Radio programs, and author of Jesus Unmasked, Stressed Out, Reset for Parents.
Man, wretched man that I am, wretched human, who can set me free?
Curse you, Perry the Platypus, and my wretched, wretched life.