Is Ruefully a Noun or Adjective?
British Dictionary Definitions for Rueful Rueful. / (ˈRuːfʊl) / Adjective. Feeling or Expressing Sorrow or Repentancea Rueful Face. Is Ruefully an Adjective or...
British Dictionary definitions for rueful
rueful. / (ˈruːfʊl) / adjective. feeling or expressing sorrow or repentancea rueful face.
Is ruefully an adjective or adverb?
In a rueful manner; causing, feeling or expressing regret or sorrow. "He smiled ruefully at me."
What's ruefully mean?
1 : exciting pity or sympathy : pitiable rueful squalid poverty … by every wayside— John Morley. 2 : mournful, regretful troubled her with a rueful disquiet— W. M. Thackeray.