RUEFULNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does ruefulness mean?
• RUEFULNESS (noun)
The noun RUEFULNESS has 1 sense:
1. sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
Familiarity information: RUEFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RUEFULNESS (noun)
Meaning:
Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
regret; ruefulness; sorrow; rue
Context examples:
he drank to drown his sorrows / he wrote a note expressing his regret / to his rue, the error cost him the game
Hypernyms ("ruefulness" is a kind of...):
sadness; unhappiness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ruefulness"):
attrition; contriteness; contrition (sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation)
compunction; remorse; self-reproach (a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed))
