rueful
Meaning of rueful
adjective
- expressing sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous way.
she gave a rueful grin
Middle English (also in the sense ‘pitiable’): from the noun rue1 + -ful.
Information about rueful
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of rueful
rue-ful
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- rueful is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
rueful synonyms
Meaning contrite:
Meaning feeling or showing grief:
Meaning feeling or showing regret:
Meaning expressing or showing regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure:
Meaning feeling regret or penitence:
Meaning feeling or expressing shame or embarrassment:
Meaning showing or feeling embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence:
Meaning having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced:
Meaning expressing or feeling sincere regret and remorse; remorseful:
Meaning feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant:
Meaning sad or miserable in appearance:
Meaning characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery:
Meaning feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy:
Meaning having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:
Meaning feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief:
Meaning characterized by guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad:
rueful antonyms
Meaning feeling or showing pleasure or contentment:
Meaning showing no regret for one's wrongdoings:
Words that rhyme with rueful
waeful, tubeful, adviceful, chanceful, choiceful, deviceful, disgraceful, dispeaceful, enticeful, fenceful, forceful, graceful, juiceful, maliceful, menaceful, mischanceful, nongraceful, offenceful, peaceful, placeful, pranceful, pretenceful, rejoiceful, reminiscenceful, resourceful, romanceful, semipeaceful, solaceful, sourceful, spaceful, spiceful, tranceful, unforceful, ungraceful, unpeaceful, unresourceful, unvoiceful, voiceful, bodeful, paradeful, prideful, shadeful, spadeful, tideful, tradeful, unprideful, cheeful, gleeful, leeful, treeful
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