All rue synonyms
rue
R r noun rue
- expiation — The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
- lamentation — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- woe — grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
- heartbreak — great sorrow, grief, or anguish.
- broken heart — If you say that someone has a broken heart, you mean that they are very sad, for example because a love affair has ended unhappily.
- compunction — If you say that someone has no compunction about doing something, you mean that they do it without feeling ashamed or guilty.
- anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
- condolement — Often, condolences. expression of sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- infelicity — the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.
- contrition — deeply felt remorse; penitence
verb rue
- keening — a wailing lament for the dead.
- grieve — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- lament — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- deplore — If you say that you deplore something, you think it is very wrong or immoral.
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- mourn — Feel or show deep sorrow or regret for (someone or their death), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.
- bewail — If you bewail something, you express great sorrow about it.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- look back — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.