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Rueful vs Dispirited - What's the difference?

rueful | dispirited |

As adjectives the difference between rueful and dispirited

is that rueful is causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow while dispirited is without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

As a verb dispirited is

(dispirit).

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

    dispirited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispirit)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
    • So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.}}