Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of sorrow; rueful.
- adjective Causing sorrow or pity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of sorrow; sorrowful; woful; rueful.
- Causing ruth or pity; piteous.
- Full of ruth or pity; merciful; compassionate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pitiful; tender.
- adjective Full of sorrow; woeful.
- adjective Causing sorrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
sorrow ;sorrowful ;woeful ;rueful . - adjective Causing
pity ;piteous . - adjective Full of ruth or pity;
merciful ;compassionate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Etymologies
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Examples
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As Jim Morrison sang sorta: Feen and ruthful on teh western plains . . .
Apparently, Basement cat felt that 4 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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And he maketh a ruthful noise and ghastful, when one proffereth to fight with another: and unneth is hurt when he is thrown down off an high place.
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And he maketh a ruthful noise and ghastful, when one proffereth to fight with another: and unneth is hurt when he is thrown down off an high place.
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Be more ruthless - except, that is with us your regular commenters, with whom you must remain tolerant and ruthful.
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We got there by the wrong method methods and people are getting ruthful.
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Sad was the man that word to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful.
Ulysses 2003
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Trojan, Paris, was privily stolen away out of their country, was greater or more pitiful than this ruthful and deplorable collugency of theirs?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Trojan, Paris, was privily stolen away out of their country, was greater or more pitiful than this ruthful and deplorable collugency of theirs?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Hylas, nor was the rapt of Polyxena more throbbingly resented and condoled by Priamus and Hecuba, than this aforesaid accident would be sympathetically bemoaned, grievous, ruthful, and anxious to the woefully desolate and disconsolate parents.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Hylas, nor was the rapt of Polyxena more throbbingly resented and condoled by Priamus and Hecuba, than this aforesaid accident would be sympathetically bemoaned, grievous, ruthful, and anxious to the woefully desolate and disconsolate parents.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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