1. rueful - Adjective
2. rueful - Adjective Satellite
Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
Expressing sorrow.
Source: Webster's dictionarySweet Mercy to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. William Wordsworth
I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together. Michael Chabon
I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. "Aye, mo duinne. But you're my sassenach. Diana Gabaldon
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair. Robert Harris (novelist)
Reckless youth makes rueful age. French Proverb
Reckless youth makes rueful age. English Proverb