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Dueful vs Rueful - What's the difference?

dueful | rueful |

As adjectives the difference between dueful and rueful

is that dueful is suitable, appropriate while rueful is causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.

dueful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Suitable, appropriate.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
  • *:her lives Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserved, as his duefull meed, / Her love, her service, and her utmost wealth […].

    • rueful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
  • Inspiring pity or compassion.

    • Derived terms

    * rue-bargain * ruefully * ruefulness

    Related terms

    * rue