Canadian English Meaning of rueful
regretful
Other Canadian English words related to regretful
- bitter
- funeral
- heartbroken
- melancholy
- mournful
- weeping
- sore
- agonised
- Anguished
- bleak
- crying
- dark
- depressed
- doleful
- sad
- elegiac
- funereal
- Grieving
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- morbid
- plaintive
- (mournful)
- Regretful
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- tearful
- unhappy
- wailing
- woeful
- Complaining
- crying
- bleeding
- broken-hearted
- careworn
- Cheerless
- cheerless
- downcast
- darkening
- dejected
- deploring
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- disheartened
- Woeful
- downcast
- disheartened
- Dreary
- elegiac
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grey
- grey
- groaning
- heartsick
- howling
- inconsolable
- joyless
- Low
- low-spirited
- moaning
- moody
- glum
- pessimistic
- pitiful
- Saturnine
- sombre
- suffering
- sullen
- sad
- woebegone
- Dirgelike
- Heartsore
- keening
Nearest Words of rueful
Definitions and Meaning of rueful in English
rueful (s)
feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
rueful (a.)
Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
Expressing sorrow.
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regretful
feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offensesCausing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful., Expressing sorrow.
bitter,funeral,heartbroken,melancholy,mournful,weeping,sore,agonised,Anguished,bleak
bright,chipper,cheerful,Delighted,happy,joyful,laughing,smiling,triumphant,blissful
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