Difference between Miserable and Wretched

What is the difference between Miserable and Wretched?

Miserable as an adjective is in a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. while Wretched as an adjective is very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

Miserable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.

Example sentence: The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Wretched

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: 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; miserableHatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

Example sentence: I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

We hope you now know whether to use Miserable or Wretched in your sentence.

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