ruth

Plural: ruths

Noun

• A feeling of pity, compassion, or sorrow for others.
• United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
• the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
• a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
• Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
• Repentance; regret; remorse.
• Sorrow; misery; distress.
• Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

Examples

• She showed no ruth for her opponent, playing a seven-letter word on a triple-word score.

Synonyms

Babe Ruth, Book of Ruth, commiseration, George Herman Ruth, pathos, pity, Sultan of Swat, affliction, agenbite, aggrievance, blueness, blues, bowels, compassion, compunction, contrition, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, empathy, fellow feeling, forlornness, grief, grievance, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, loving-kindness, melancholia, melancholy, mercy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, penitence, prosternation, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sadness, self-reproach, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wrong