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rue is a noun and verb meaning "European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy". It carries 5 recorded senses.
European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rue come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.