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ruefuladjective expressing or suggesting mourningthe rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects aching, agonized, anguished, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolesome, dolorous, funeral, grieving, heartbroken, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, plangent, regretful, sorrowful, sorry, wailing, weeping, woeful dirgelike, elegiac(also elegiacal), melancholydejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, tearfulbrokenhearted, careworn, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegonebawling, crying, groaning, howling, keening, moaning, yammeringbleeding, sufferingblack, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray(also grey), joyless, low, miserable, moody, morbid, morose, pathetic, pessimistic, piteous, saturnine, somber(or sombre), sullen, wretched delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphantbright, cheerful, cheering, cheerylaughing, smilingblissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthfulencouraging, hopeful, optimisticecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic(also rhapsodical) feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has donea rueful youth who had come to ask for forgiveness for online bullying apologetic, compunctious, contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sorry ashamed, shamefaced, sheepishdolorous, grieving, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, wailing, weeping, woeful impenitent, remorseless, unapologetic, unrepentant compassionless, cruel, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unmercifulshameless, unashamed deserving of one's pitythe rueful, desperate poverty of people in parts of the Third World heartbreaking, heartrending, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, sorry, wretched deplorable, lamentable, regrettableemotional, impressive, inspiringaffecting, moving, poignant, stirring, touchingawful, horrible, terribledistressing, disturbing, upsettinggrievous, mournful, sad, sorrowful, woeful unimpressive, uninspiring in the 13th century |