What does ruthful mean?

Definitions for ruthful
ˈruθ fəlruth·ful

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word ruthful.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthfuladjective

    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Wiktionary

  1. ruthfuladjective

    Full of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful.

  2. ruthfuladjective

    Causing pity; piteous.

  3. ruthfuladjective

    Full of ruth or pity; merciful; compassionate.

  4. Etymology: From reuthful, reowthful, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ruthfuladjective

    Rueful; woful; sorrowful.

    Etymology: ruth and full.

    The inhabitants seldom take a ruthful and reaving experience of those harms, which infectious diseases carry with them. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

ChatGPT

  1. ruthful

    Ruthful is an adjective which means feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or pity. It's the opposite of ruthless.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ruthfuladjective

    full of ruth

  2. Ruthfuladjective

    pitiful; tender

  3. Ruthfuladjective

    full of sorrow; woeful

  4. Ruthfuladjective

    causing sorrow

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ruthful in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ruthful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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