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1
expressing or suggesting mourning
- the rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects
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- dirgelike,
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- melancholy
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- dispirited,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- tearful
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- ecstatic,
- elated,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- heady,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
2
feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done
- a rueful youth who had come to ask for forgiveness for online bullying
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3
deserving of one's pity
- the rueful, desperate poverty of people in parts of the Third World
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The first known use of rueful was in the 13th century
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