Rueful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rueful \Rue"ful\ (r[udd]"f[.u]l), a.
     1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
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     2. Expressing sorrow. "Rueful faces." --Dryden.
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              Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Rue"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Rue"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rueful
       adj : feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
             [syn: {contrite}, {remorseful}, {ruthful}, {sorry}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "rueful":
     addicted, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, ashamed,
     bitter, bleak, careworn, cheerless, comfortless,
     conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, deplorable, depressed,
     depressing, depressive, despairing, despondent, discomforting,
     dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific,
     dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, dumb with grief, full of remorse,
     grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, hopeless, in grief,
     joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, moving,
     oppressed, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
     plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, poor, regretful,
     regrettable, remorseful, repining, ruthful, sad, saddening,
     self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing,
     self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing,
     self-reproaching, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, sharp, sore,
     sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, tearful, touching,
     uncomfortable, unhappy about, wistful, woebegone, woeful,
     wretched