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Rueful vs Laudatory - What's the difference?

rueful | laudatory |

As adjectives the difference between rueful and laudatory

is that rueful is causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow while laudatory is of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.

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

    laudatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.
    • laudatory verses
  • * 1853 , Sir James Stephen, "On Desultory and Systematic Reading"
    • The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.

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