Synonyms for ruth
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Pity — sorrow for the misery of another person; compassion, mercy, pity
2. Remorse — regret, remorse, repentance
repentance, penitence, contrition, compunction, remorse dated
3. Sorrow — matter for regret or sorrow; calamity, ruin; also, occasion for regret or sorrow; (countable) an instance of…
4. Rue — distress, misery, sorrow
dejection, unhappiness, rue dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Sorrow for the misery of another person; compassion, mercy, pity.
- n. 2
Regret, remorse, repentance.
- n. 3
Matter for regret or sorrow; calamity, ruin; also, occasion for regret or sorrow; (countable) an instance of this; a disaster, a pitiful thing.
- n. 4
Distress, misery, sorrow.
Forms
- Plural
- ruths → pities, mercies, compassions, commiserations…
Example sentences
- hardship They had to endure great hardship during the war.
By length
- 3 letters
- rue1
- 4 letters
- pity2
- 5 letters
- mercy2, grief1
- 6 letters
- sorrow2, pathos2
- 7 letters
- remorse2
- 8 letters
- sympathy3, hardship2
- 9 letters
- penitence, dejection
- 10 letters
- compassion3, repentance3, contrition3
- 11 letters
- unhappiness4, compunction3
- 13 letters
- commiseration
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pity2 = 2 syllables).