Usually means: Regretful or remorseful in hindsight.
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  1. rueful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rueful: Merriam-Webster
  3. rueful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rueful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rueful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rueful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rueful, rueful: Wordnik
  8. rueful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rueful: Wiktionary
  10. rueful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rueful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rueful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rueful, rueful: Dictionary.com
  14. rueful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rueful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rueful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rueful: Rhymezone
  18. Rueful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rueful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. rueful: FreeDictionary.org
  21. rueful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rueful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rueful: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rueful: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rueful: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
adjective:  Inspiring pity or compassion.
adjective:  Bad; woeful; deplorable.

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