ruth

Meanings

Plural: ruths

Noun

• United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
• the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
• a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
• Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
• Repentance; regret; remorse.
• Sorrow; misery; distress.
• Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

Synonyms

affliction, agenbite, aggrievance, Babe Ruth, blueness, blues, Book of Ruth, bowels, commiseration, compassion, compunction, contrition, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, empathy, fellow feeling, forlornness, George Herman Ruth, grief, grievance, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, loving-kindness, melancholia, melancholy, mercy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, pathos, penitence, pity, prosternation, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sadness, self-reproach, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, Sultan of Swat, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wrong