Of conditions, etc.: = wretched, adj. 2. Obsolete.

Wretched, miserable.

Of a time, place, event, etc.: fraught with or marked by sorrow, distress, or misfortune; causing or evoking woe.

Miserable, wretched.

Pathetically unworthy, inadequate, or meagre; contemptible, despicable; paltry, mean.

Esp. of a person: miserable, wretched. Obsolete.

Of an event, situation, etc.: fraught with or causing sorrow, distress, or misfortune. Chiefly with anticipatory it as subject. Cf. compounds 1. Now…

Full of misery: cf. thrall, n.1 3.