Difference between Wretched and Piteous

WRETCHED vs PITEOUS: ADJECTIVE

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

=Syn.1. Forlorn, woebegone.
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.
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.
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.
Very unhappy
Full of misery
Vile, sorry, shabby, pitiful.
Suffering from or affected by extreme misery or distress; deeply afflicted; miserable; unhappy.

Pitiful; paltry; poor: as, piteous amends. Milton.
Such as to excite pity or move to compassion; affecting; lamentable; sorrowful; mournful; sad: as, a piteous look; a piteous case.
Full of pity or compassion; compassionate; affected by pity.

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

Forlorn, Ghastly, Reproachful, Plaintive, Sorrowful, Doleful, Unfortunate, Poor, Misfortunate, Miserable, Hapless, Wretched, Pathetic, Pitiful, Pitiable

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

Forlorn, Ghastly, Reproachful, Plaintive, Sorrowful, Doleful, Unfortunate, Poor, Misfortunate, Miserable, Hapless, Wretched, Pathetic, Pitiful, Pitiable

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.

Indians than she can well spare; and this because her tender heart cannot withstand the piteous appeals so constantly made.
NEMESIS, piteous way, why she was smitten down, and he, a grey, sapless trunk, left standing.
The townships remained poorly serviced with inadequate housing, and local government was in a piteous state.
Pain erupted in cramped muscles all along my body, making piteous noises of distress.
Thus having said, he heavily departed With piteous crie, that auie would have smarted.
Dying Wife Made Piteous Plea for Life When She Saw Her Baby.
French Christians in the fifth century to utter their piteous supplications.
Her voice was tense with piteous anguish as she pleaded.
Almah threw a piteous glance at me and said nothing.
It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.