RUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rue mean? 

• RUE (noun)
  The noun RUE has 4 senses:

1. European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy

2. leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy

3. sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

4. (French) a street or road in France

  Familiarity information: RUE used as a noun is uncommon.

• RUE (verb)
  The verb RUE has 1 sense:

1. feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

  Familiarity information: RUE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

herb of grace; rue; Ruta graveolens

Hypernyms ("rue" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "rue"):

rue (leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy)

Holonyms ("rue" is a member of...):

genus Ruta; Ruta (type genus of the Rutaceae; strong-scented Eurasian herbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rue" is a kind of...):

herb (aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities)

Holonyms ("rue" is a part of...):

herb of grace; rue; Ruta graveolens (European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

regret; rue; ruefulness; sorrow

Context example:

to his rue, the error cost him the game

Hypernyms ("rue" is a kind of...):

sadness; unhappiness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rue"):

attrition; contriteness; contrition (sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation)

compunction; remorse; self-reproach (a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed))

Derivation:

rue (feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(French) a street or road in France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rue" is a kind of...):

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Domain region:

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

• RUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rue    ... he / she / it rues   
Past simple: rued   
Past participle: rued   
-ing form: ruing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

regret; repent; rue

Hypernyms (to "rue" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rue (sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment)

 Context examples 

How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yet, the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If these be indeed Don Tello and his men, then we must bide where we are, and do what we can to make them rue the day that they found us in their path.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was at last bold enough to walk the street in his company, but kept my nose well stopped with rue, or sometimes with tobacco.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)