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    [Adjective]  | "rue*ful" | \ ˈrü-fəl \


    1: exciting pity or sympathy : pitiable

    2: mournful, regretful


    Origin: 13th century ;

    [Adjective]  | "rueful" 


    1: expressing or suggesting mourning;


      * e.g., " ... the rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects "





    2: feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done;


      * e.g., " ... a rueful youth who had come to ask for forgiveness for online bullying "



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    3: deserving of one's pity;


      * e.g., " ... the rueful, desperate poverty of people in parts of the Third World "



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     [ "rueful" ]

    1: adj. - )To remorse a missed opportunity.

      * e.g.,  ... ) Rueful!! That was hilarious. 


     [ "rueful" ]

    2: )Or used to describe the sound made when the abbreaviation for Rolling On the Floor Laughing is used.

      * e.g.,  ... ) Man, I'll bet that guy in TFC is rueing the day he was born after what I did to him 

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