Searing vs Wretched - What's the difference?
searing | wretched | Related terms |
very hot; blistering or boiling
(of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat
action of the verb to sear
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cooking food quickly at high temperature
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
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Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
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, title= (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Searing is a related term of wretched.
As adjectives the difference between searing and wretched
is that searing is very hot; blistering or boiling while wretched is very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.As a noun searing
is action of the verb to sear .As a verb searing
is .searing
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- he was raw with the searings of the fire
- It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wretched
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=As for me, I felt wretched and helpless, in the darkness, surrounded with angry waves, whose noise deafened me.}}
citation, passage=My room is a wretched , horrid one in the outskirts of the town.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,.
Liverpool 3-0 Man City, passage=Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini. }}