rueful

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
    — "I like the young, andro look, but I've dated across the board—butches, femmes, trannies—and that really bothers Clara. All her girlfriends in the past have been pretty much straight." Kim offers a rueful little laugh.
  2. Inspiring pity or compassion.
  3. Bad; woeful; deplorable.
    — The first who made the experiment was a merry-andrew, who was put into my hands by a neighbouring justice of peace, in order to reclaim him from that profligate kind of life. Poor Pickle-herring had not taken above one turn in it, when he came out of the cave, like a hermit from his cell, with a penitential look and a most rueful countenance.

词形变化

more rueful comparative most rueful superlative ruefull alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
ruefully ruefulness unrueful
相关词
rue

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwan
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *-u
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu
Old English hrēow
Middle English rewe
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English reuful
English rueful
From Middle English ruful, rewful. By surface analysis, rue + -ful.
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