ruefulness

Other forms of ruefulness

plural

ruefulnesses·

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.

Questions about ruefulness

What does ruefulness mean?

ruefulness means "sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment".

How many syllables are in ruefulness?

ruefulness has 3 syllables: rue-ful-ness. The stress falls on "rue".

What is another word for ruefulness?

Close synonyms include sorrow, regret, rue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ruefulness a common word?

ruefulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.