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[ roo-fuhl ] / ˈru fəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rueful ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivecausing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight. feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow, repentance, or regret: the rueful look on her face. Origin of ruefulFirst recorded in 1175–1225, rueful is from the Middle English word reowful; see rue1, -ful OTHER WORDS FROM ruefulrue·ful·ly, adverbrue·ful·ness, nounhalf-rue·ful, adjectiveun·rue·ful, adjective un·rue·ful·ness, noun Words nearby ruefulRudy, Rudyard, rue, rue anemone, rue family, rueful, ruefully, Rufen, rufescent, ruff, ruffe Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ruefulRueful laughter from both men turned to thoughtfulness in Stittsworth. The Strange, True Tale of the Old-Timey Goat Testicle-Implanting 'Governor'|Penny Lane|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant. Benedict Cumberbatch’s Revealing Reddit AMA: On Julian Assange’s Letter and Fame|Marlow Stern|October 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST A discussion of a London cheese shop sends her into paroxysms of rueful joy. Michelle Forbes' Good Grief|Jace Lacob|May 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST But most of them must be delivered from on the peninsula, where Bob is standing, casting a rueful eye on the whole show. On the Peninsula|Bryan Curtis|April 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
“You can pick which lines can come out,” Spitzer said with a rueful smile. Eliot Spitzer's Comeback Trail|Lloyd Grove|May 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST The muscles of the woman's face twisted it into a rueful smile. The Dawn of a To-morrow|Frances Hodgson Burnett Hilbrough acquiesced with a rueful sense that he should be clumsy enough at entertaining a foreigner and a man of title. The Faith Doctor|Edward Eggleston Benjamin looked down again at his plate, with a rueful resignation which told me that I had carried my point. The Law and the Lady|Wilkie Collins The comment was dragged from Jeannette in a tone as unconsciously reluctant as his was rueful. He rose to his feet and paid his bill with a rueful conviction that he had fought not wisely, though so well. The Mayor of Warwick|Herbert M. Hopkins
British Dictionary definitions for rueful
adjectivefeeling or expressing sorrow or repentancea rueful face inspiring sorrow or pity Derived forms of ruefulruefully, adverbruefulness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ruefulmournful, sad, apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, remorseful, repentant, sorrowful, sorry |