Rue vs. Rueful

Ruenoun

Sorrow; repentance; regret.

Ruefuladjective

Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.

Ruenoun

Pity; compassion.

Ruefuladjective

Inspiring pity or compassion.

Ruenoun

Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.

Ruefuladjective

Bad; woeful; deplorable.

Rueverb

To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.

Ruefuladjective

Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

Rueverb

To cause to feel sorrow or pity.

Ruefuladjective

Expressing sorrow.

‘Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks.’;

Rueverb

(transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.

‘I rued the day I crossed paths with her.’;

Ruefuladjective

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Rueverb

To feel compassion or pity.

Rueverb

To feel sorrow or regret.

Ruenoun

A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine.

‘Then purged with euphrasy and rueThe visual nerve, for he had much to see.’; ‘They [the exorcists] are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue, which from thence, as we suppose, came to be called herb of grace.’;

Ruenoun

Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.

Ruenoun

Sorrow; repetance.

Rueverb

To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over.

‘I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.’; ‘Thy willChose freely what it now so justly rues.’;

Rueverb

To cause to grieve; to afflict.

Rueverb

To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from.

Rueverb

To have compassion.

‘God so wisly [i. e., truly] on my soul rue.’; ‘Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them.’;

Rueverb

To feel sorrow and regret; to repent.

‘Work by counsel and thou shalt not rue.’; ‘Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.’;

Ruenoun

European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy

Ruenoun

leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy

Ruenoun

sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment;

‘he drank to drown his sorrows’; ‘he wrote a note expressing his regret’; ‘to his rue, the error cost him the game’;

Ruenoun

(French) a street or road in France

Rueverb

feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about