Synonyms of rueful

rueful

adjective

1

as in mournful

expressing or suggesting mourning

the rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mournful
• weeping
• heartbroken
• bitter
• funeral
• melancholy
• regretful
• doleful
• sorrowful
• anguished
• tearful
• sad
• grieving
• plaintive
• lugubrious
• wailing
• lamentable
• somber
• plangent
• agonized
• dolorous
• sorry
• unhappy
• aching
• woeful
• bewailing
• deploring
• morbid
• bemoaning
• bleak
• depressed
• elegiac
• crying
• funereal
• keening
• dark
• pathetic
• dejected
• dolesome
• glum
• crestfallen
• disconsolate
• heartsick
• groaning
• downcast
• forlorn
• woebegone
• miserable
• dispirited
• darkening
• moody
• downcast
• despondent
• moaning
• gloomy
• careworn
• downhearted
• sullen
• morose
• inconsolable
• piteous
• pessimistic
• downhearted
• glum
• cheerless
• howling
• desolate
• brokenhearted
• miserable
• saturnine
• elegiacal
• heartsore
• gloomy
• joyless
• bawling
• suffering
• gray
• triste
• low
• dismal
• bleeding
• sombre
• low-spirited
• wretched
• black
• dirgelike
• yammering
• dreary
• comfortless
• grey

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• triumphant
• joyful
• cheerful
• happy
• cheery
• smiling
• delighted
• bright
• laughing
• joyous
• mirthful
• blithe
• lighthearted
• optimistic
• merry
• jolly
• exulting
• buoyant
• blissful
• hopeful
• rejoicing
• encouraging
• rapturous
• glorying
• giddy
• rhapsodic
• jocund
• blithesome
• ecstatic
• euphoric
• cheering
• heady
• rhapsodical
• exhilarated
• elated

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• triumphant
• joyful
• cheerful
• happy
• cheery
• smiling
• delighted
• bright
• laughing
• joyous
• mirthful
• blithe
• lighthearted
• optimistic
• merry
• jolly
• exulting
• buoyant
• blissful
• hopeful
• rejoicing
• encouraging
• rapturous
• glorying
• giddy
• rhapsodic
• jocund
• blithesome
• ecstatic
• euphoric
• cheering
• heady
• rhapsodical
• exhilarated
• elated

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2

as in regretful

feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done

a rueful youth who had come to ask for forgiveness for online bullying

Synonyms & Similar Words

• regretful
• remorseful
• ashamed
• sorry
• apologetic
• contrite
• repentant
• penitent
• sheepish
• shamefaced
• mournful
• plaintive
• sorrowful
• compunctious
• lugubrious
• weeping
• dolorous
• wailing
• grieving
• woeful

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unapologetic
• remorseless
• pitiless
• unrepentant
• cruel
• ruthless
• merciless
• impenitent
• unmerciful
• unashamed
• shameless
• compassionless

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• unapologetic
• remorseless
• pitiless
• unrepentant
• cruel
• ruthless
• merciless
• impenitent
• unmerciful
• unashamed
• shameless
• compassionless

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3

as in pitiful

deserving of one's pity

the rueful, desperate poverty of people in parts of the Third World

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pitiful
• pathetic
• poor
• miserable
• wretched
• sorry
• piteous
• sad
• mournful
• pitiable
• heartbreaking
• disturbing
• poignant
• lamentable
• regrettable
• impressive
• terrible
• horrible
• emotional
• heartrending
• inspiring
• sorrowful
• deplorable
• awful
• touching
• affecting
• moving
• stirring
• upsetting
• distressing
• grievous
• woeful

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unimpressive
• uninspiring

• unimpressive
• uninspiring