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More rueful

Synonyms for "more rueful" (100 found)

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Informal (9)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(2 words)

wretched painful

Adj, adv, slang(2 words)

terrible pitiful

Adj, noun, slang(1 words)

General use (91)

Adj, name, noun, verb(2 words)

Adj, noun, verb(4 words)

moving dismaying despairing saddening

Adj, noun(10 words)

dreary dismal melancholy deplorable bleak guilty apologetic depressive repentant penitent

Adj, intj, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, verb(13 words)

depressed distressing afflicted depressing oppressed affecting ashamed anguished grieved discomforting aggrieved addicted sorrowed

Adjective(38 words)

poignant shameful grievous hopeless woeful afraid lamentable sorrowful mournful pathetic woebegone pitiable regrettable uncomfortable joyless cheerless wistful despondent piteous plangent

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dolorous doleful tearful shamefaced afflictive regretful remorseful plaintive lugubrious comfortless distressful careworn ruthful dolorific shamefast grief-stricken dolorogenic griefful

Adj, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

Adjective(3 words)

remorseful contrite ruthful

Noun, verb(2 words)

sorrowing repining

unhappy about grief stricken conscience stricken dumb with grief in grief plunged in grief conscience-stricken conscience-smitten self-flagellating full of remorse self-accusing self-condemning self-convicting self-debasing self-humiliating self-punishing self-reproaching

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