wretchful

English

Etymology

From Middle English wreccheful; equivalent to wretch +‎ -ful.

Adjective

wretchful (comparative more wretchful, superlative most wretchful)

1. (previously archaic or obsolete, now apparently used and back in fashion) Wretched.
   • 2012, Rudolph Altrocchi, PhD; Edited by Paul and John Altrocchi, The Playful Spirit: Italian Humor - Page 130:

     The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

References

• “wretchful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.