单词	ruefully
释义	rueful adjective rue·​ful ˈrü-fəl  1 : exciting pity or sympathy : pitiable rueful squalid poverty … by every wayside John Morley 2 : mournful, regretful troubled her with a rueful disquiet W. M. Thackeray ruefully ˈrü-fə-lē  adverb ruefulness noun Synonyms aching agonized anguished bemoaning bewailing bitter deploring doleful dolesome dolorous funeral grieving heartbroken lamentable lugubrious mournful plaintive plangent regretful sorrowful sorry wailing weeping woeful See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences He gave me a rueful smile and apologized. the rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects Recent Examples on the Web The rueful history of the early AIDS epidemic serves as yet another backdrop. Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022 The play is an end-of-the-Elizabethan-age work, full of wry contempt for its own pastoral form and rueful melancholy for a golden age already in sunset. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022 Dorsey was less elaborate Thursday in his thoughts on Twitter’s state of being, though no less rueful about his creation. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022 Game of Thrones had a rueful sense of humor to go along with its violence and mind games, and highly quotable characters like Tyrion and Cersei. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022 Game of Thrones had a rueful sense of humor to go along with its violence and mind games, and highly quotable characters like Tyrion and Cersei. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022 Game of Thrones had a rueful sense of humor to go along with its violence and mind games, and highly quotable characters like Tyrion and Cersei. James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2022 After months of auditioning teenagers who might lend this rueful morality tale a note of optimism without losing the rue, the role of Mary Flynn proved hardest to fill — until the creative team heard Morrison. Maryrose Wood, Variety, 12 Aug. 2022 This rueful sense of difference and limitation erodes as a more toxic narrative emerges. Rebecca Steinitz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 See More Word History First Known Use 13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Kids Definition rueful adjective rue·​ful ˈrü-fəl  1 : exciting pity or sympathy 2 : mournful sense 1, regretful ruefully adverb as in bitterly with feelings of bitterness or grief ruefully accepted the fact that the drunk driver would never adequately pay for his crime Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance bitterly sorrowfully sadly mournfully painfully dolefully regretfully resentfully unhappily lugubriously plaintively sharply hard dolorously harshly woefully glumly grievously wailfully agonizingly wretchedly despairingly dejectedly despondently inconsolably somberly sorely dispiritedly gloomily morosely severely sullenly cheerlessly forlornly mirthlessly pessimistically disconsolately darkly hardly dourly poignantly abjectly distressfully joylessly miserably blackly dismally drearily keenly acutely distressingly cruelly piercingly downheartedly rancorously crestfallenly hurtfully ill low-spiritedly Antonyms & Near Antonyms happily cheerfully joyously joyfully gleefully gladly cheerily delightedly lightheartedly blissfully mirthfully sunnily merrily gaily gayly blithely calmly casually stoically indifferently unconcernedly nonchalantly impassively rejoicingly good-naturedly dispassionately lightly easily well favorably blithesomely See More
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