Rueful synonyms
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Part of speech:
Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
Showing or resulting from contrition
Marked by or filled with remorse.
Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
ashamed (related)
Feeling shame because something bad, wrong, or foolish was done
pitiful (related)
Arousing or deserving pity
Feeling or characterized by sadness or dejection.
Causing grief:
The definition of lamentable is something to view with regret or pity.
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
The definition of melancholy is someone or something that is sad or gloomy.
Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.
The definition of plaintive is something that is sad, mournful or expresses sorrow.
Deplorably bad:
Demanding or arousing pity:
Arousing or deserving pity, sometimes mixed with scorn or contempt
Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
(Now Rare) Full of ruth; feeling, showing, or arousing pity or sorrow
To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
The definition of dolorous is a person who is very sad.
Causing grief
Of an inferior or deplorable condition:
pity (related)
Arousing or deserving pity
happy (related)
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
Find another word for rueful. In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rueful, like: regretful, contrite, remorseful, pathetic, sorrowful, despondent, ashamed, sorry, pitiful, sad and depressed.