rueful

Adjective Satellite

• feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Adj

• Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
• Inspiring pity or compassion.
• Bad; woeful; deplorable.

Adjective

• Expressing sorrow or regret, often in a humorous way.

Examples

• With a RUEFUL sigh, she admitted that her ’Q’ had been useless the entire game.

Synonyms

contrite, remorseful, ruthful, abysmal, atrabiliary, atrabilious, awful, chronic, coarse, crap, crummy, deplorable, depressing, dire, disagreeable, dismal, distressing, dreadful, foul, grievous, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inferior, intolerable, lachrymable, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, mournful, naff, negative, odious, pathetic, pathetisad, peak, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, regrettable, rotten, rubbish, rueful, sad, saddening, shitawful, sloppy, sorrowful, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unhappy, upsetting, woebegone, woeful

Related Words

rue, RUEFULLY

Anagrams of rueful