Difference between Woeful and Wretched

WOEFUL vs WRETCHED: ADJECTIVE

Deplorably bad.
Causing, involving, or expressing woe.
Affected by or full of woe; mournful.
Affected by or full of grief or woe
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
Wretched; paltry; poor
Of very poor quality or condition

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

=Syn.2. Mournful, calamitous, disastrous, afflictive, miserable, grievous. See woe.
Wretched; paltry; mean; pitiful.
Relating or pertaining to woe; expressing woe; characterized by sorrow or woe; deplorable.
Full of woe; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; sorrowful.

Suffering from or affected by extreme misery or distress; deeply afflicted; miserable; unhappy.
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

Sad, Distressing, Dire, Appalling, Lamentable, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Sorrowful, Inferior, Deplorable, Woebegone, Execrable, Miserable, Wretched

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

Sad, Distressing, Dire, Appalling, Lamentable, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Sorrowful, Inferior, Deplorable, Woebegone, Execrable, Miserable, Wretched

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

Another shot of Padalecki looking heartbreakingly woeful and equal parts resigned.
Lack of woeful abyss Following kleenex from Long-Term breadwinner Use.
Startups with woeful credit, but, face higher hurdles to funding.
Thus was the happy ending to a woeful voyage.
Australia stands to be left in a woeful position.
Diethylpropion should not be returned, a judge woeful senility.
The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
Funding levels for construction, operations, and maintenance are woeful.
To what do you ascribe this woeful deterioration?
In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

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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.
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Man, wretched man that I am, wretched human, who can set me free?
Curse you, Perry the Platypus, and my wretched, wretched life.