Rueful synonyms
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Part of speech:
Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
(Now Rare) Full of ruth; feeling, showing, or arousing pity or sorrow
Of an inferior or deplorable condition:
To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
The definition of dolorous is a person who is very sad.
Causing grief
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Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
Showing or resulting from contrition
Marked by or filled with remorse.
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
ashamed (related)
Feeling shame because something bad, wrong, or foolish was done
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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.
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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
pity (related)
Arousing or deserving pity
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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.
quizzical (related)
reproachful (related)
sardonic (related)
pensive (related)
derisive (related)
wry (related)
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sheepish (related)
Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
Find another word for rueful. In this page you can discover 37 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rueful, like: regretful, ruthful, woebegone, deplorable, dolorous, grievous, regrettable, pathetic, contrite, remorseful and sorrowful.