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Word Meanings - RUEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. "Rueful faces." Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. Sir W. Scott. -- Rue"ful*ly, adv. -- Rue"ful*ness, n.

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  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • SOMBERNESS; SOMBRENESS
    The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
  • RUEFUL
    1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. "Rueful faces." Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. Sir W. Scott. -- Rue"ful*ly, adv. -- Rue"ful*ness, n.
  • DISMAL
    dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
  • MELANCHOLY
    1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
  • SORROWFUL
    1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
  • DOLOROUS
    1. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort. Shak. 2. Occasioning pain or grief; painful. Their dispatch is quick, and less
  • SOMBER; SOMBRE
    from LL. subumbrare to put in the shade; L. sub under + umbra shade. 1. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house. 2. Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. The dinner was silent
  • DOLEFUL
    Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton. Syn. -- Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal;
  • DISMALNESS
    The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
  • PITEOUS
    1. Pious; devout. The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. " piteous of his case." Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity
  • SOMBERLY; SOMBRELY
    In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.
  • IMPITEOUS
    Pitiless; cruel.
  • DESPITEOUS
    Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. "Despiteous reproaches." Holland.
  • DESPITEOUSLY
    Despitefully.
  • DISPITEOUS
    Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser. -- Dis*pit"e*ous*ly, adv.

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