ruefull

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A form of rueful — Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.

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Meanings

adjectiveruefull (comparative more ruefull, superlative most ruefull)

comparative more ruefull · superlative most ruefull

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of rueful.

    The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

ruefull. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ruefull

MLA

“ruefull.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ruefull. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ruefull,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ruefull.

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