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Abjectly vs Wretchedly - What's the difference?

abjectly | wretchedly |

As adverbs the difference between abjectly and wretchedly

is that abjectly is with great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion while wretchedly is in a wretched manner.

abjectly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • With great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion.
    • I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
  • * 1851 , , Moby-Dick
    • So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;

    Antonyms

    * (somewhat) proudly

    Related terms

    * abject * abjection * abjectness

    References

    wretchedly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a wretched manner.
  • * 2006 , Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone , ICON Group International, Inc., page 157 [http://books.google.com/books?id=tBhxl1UQMy8C&pg=PA157&dq=wretchedly+date:1970-2008&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sig=mOLHAt2YU3cOXM91D6DnLE34Vwk]
    • I felt wretchedly old, and worn out, and unfit for my place - and began to wonder, for the first time in my life, when it would please God to take me.