Synonyms for ruthful
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Miserable — full of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful
miserable, wretched, sorrowful, woeful, doleful, mournful, wistful, grief-stricken, melancholy, dismal, desolate, tearful, forlorn, dejected, despondent, plaintive, joyless, disconsolate, lugubrious, heartsick, cheerless, woebegone
2. Compassionate — causing pity; piteous
rueful, pathetic, pitiable, pitisome, piteous, compassionate dated, pitiful dated
3. Merciful — full of ruth or pity; merciful; compassionate
merciful, clement, lenient, relentful, mercied, merciable dated
4. Remorseful
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Full of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful.
- adj. 2
Causing pity; piteous.
- adj. 3
Full of ruth or pity; merciful; compassionate.
Related words
- Word family
- ruthfully ruthfulness ruth
Example sentences
- mournful Tom stood at the window with a mournful expression on his face.
- wistful Ah, this song makes me feel all wistful.
- doleful My dog died yesterday, so I'm quite doleful.
- pathetic The education in that institute is simply pathetic.
- rueful Tom wrote a rueful letter to Mary from prison.
- merciful In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
By length
- 6 letters
- tender2, dismal2, woeful2, rueful2
- 7 letters
- clement2, pitiful3, lenient3, tearful2, forlorn2, wistful2, joyless, doleful2, piteous, mercied
- 8 letters
- pathetic3, wretched2, merciful3, desolate3, dejected3, mournful2, contrite2, pitiable4, pitisome
- 9 letters
- miserable4, sorrowful3, plaintive2, heartsick, cheerless, woebegone3, relentful, merciable
- 10 letters
- melancholy4, despondent3, remorseful3, lugubrious4
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
- 13 letters
- compassionate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tender2 = 2 syllables).