rueful
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Adj
- Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
- Inspiring pity or compassion.
- Bad; woeful; deplorable.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ruful, rewful. By surface analysis, rue + -ful.
Synonyms
abysmal, atrabiliary, atrabilious, awful, chronic, coarse, contrite, crap, crummy, deplorable, depressing, dire, disagreeable, dismal, distressing, dreadful, foul, grievous, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inferior, intolerable, lachrymable, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, mournful, naff, negative, odious, pathetic, pathetisad, peak, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, regrettable, remorseful, rotten, rubbish, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, shitawful, sloppy, sorrowful, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unhappy, upsetting, woebegone, woeful
Scrabble Score: 9
rueful is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordrueful is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rueful is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary