Rueful

Adjective

 * 1) Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
 * 2) Inspiring pity or compassion.

Derived terms

 * ruefully
 * ruefulness

Related terms

 * rue

Adverbs for Rueful
forlornly; terribly; pathetically; sorrowfully; dismally; desolately; hopelessly; pitiably; drearily; darkly; helplessly; miserably; wretchedly; unspeakably; strangely; distressingly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
rue + -ful

Translations

 * Finnish: kaduttava, ,


 * Russian:, , унылый


 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian: ,