ruthful

1. 1.

   feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

   Synonymscontriteremorsefulrueful

   Similarpenitent

Other forms of ruthful

comparative

ruthfuller·

superlative

ruthfullest·

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 ruthful

What does ruthful mean?

ruthful means "feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses".

How many syllables are in ruthful?

ruthful has 2 syllables: ruth-ful. The stress falls on "ruth".

What is another word for ruthful?

Close synonyms include contrite, remorseful, rueful. 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 ruthful a common word?

ruthful 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.