A miserable or wretched person.

A poor or miserable creature; a wretch. Also attributive.

One who is sunk in deep distress, sorrow, misfortune, or poverty; a miserable, unhappy, or unfortunate person; a poor or hapless being.

Expressing commiseration: A wretched miserable person, a poor wretch, one in a piteous case. Obsolete.

A word of uncertain origin, frequent in Cursor Mundi, the later texts of which render it caitiff or wretch.

A miserable person; a person who is extremely poor, unhappy, or wretched. Frequently in plural.

A miserable or wretched person; a wretch. Obsolete.

In a vague depreciatory sense, ‘a (poor) creature’, ‘a (poor, pious) soul’, ‘a (poor) devil’.

Irish English and Newfoundland. A weak, pitiable, or poverty-stricken person; a wretch.