compassionate or sorrowful.
causing or apt to cause sorrow or pity.
feeling remorse or self-reproach.
Jones stood close at my elbow, with a face as festive now as it was ruthful not long before.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850|Various
Sad was the man that word to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful.
Ulysses|James Joyce
Hmmm, ruthful face or bowels. :confusion-scratchheadblue:
If Rue rues being ruthless, does that make Rue ruthful?
I never heard that word. Good find. So can you find out if a happy employee is "gruntled"?
gruntled
/ (ˈɡrʌntəld) / adjective
informal happy or contented; satisfied
I guess lawyers like you never deal with them.
A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding.
The best-known English pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". It has been used since at least the late 19th century, was utilized by Western Union to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability,[1] and is now used by a number of computer programs (most notably the font viewer built into Microsoft Windows) to display computer fonts.
In a sense, a pangram (παν γράμμα, 'pan gramma', "every letter") is the opposite of the lipogram, in which the aim is to omit one or more letters.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god. It just means 'ground', lame.
Is GRUNTLED a word?
DISGRUNTLED is an adjective, meaning angry or dissatisfied. In many cases, the “dis-” prefix adds a negative element to a word, leading many people to ask if there is an opposite word, GRUNTLED. However, “dis-” has another function as well. Instead of being negative, the “dis-” prefix in “disgruntled” is an intensifier. It means “utterly” or “completely” and adds emphasis to the root.
Back in the 1600s “gruntling” meant “grumbling.” So if someone was “gruntling,” they’d be even MORE upset if they were “disgruntling” –and it does look like “disgruntle” was a verb before it became an adjective and we started to use it to describe people’s emotions.
So is GRUNTLED a word? Interestingly, it has actually become one according to some dictionaries; they suggest that “gruntled” is a back-formation that people derived from “disgruntled.” In other words, so many people thought “disgruntled” should have the corresponding positive word, “gruntled,” that it emerged and was accepted. Granted, the word isn’t common, but the first known use of “gruntled” as an adjective to mean “in good humor” or “pleased” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) is attributed to P.G. Wodehouse, who included this sentence in his 1938 novel, “The Code of the Woosters”:
“He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
As an aside, the Merriam-Webster online dictionary puts the first use of GRUNTLED in 1926, but it doesn’t show the source. At any rate, GRUNTLED may one day indeed become commonplace.
Is GRUNTLED a word?
DISGRUNTLED is an adjective, meaning angry or dissatisfied. In many cases, the “dis-” prefix adds a negative element to a word, leading many people to ask if there is an opposite word, GRUNTLED. However, “dis-” has another function as well. Instead of being negative, the “dis-” prefix in “disgruntled” is an intensifier. It means “utterly” or “completely” and adds emphasis to the root.
Back in the 1600s “gruntling” meant “grumbling.” So if someone was “gruntling,” they’d be even MORE upset if they were “disgruntling” –and it does look like “disgruntle” was a verb before it became an adjective and we started to use it to describe people’s emotions.
So is GRUNTLED a word? Interestingly, it has actually become one according to some dictionaries; they suggest that “gruntled” is a back-formation that people derived from “disgruntled.” In other words, so many people thought “disgruntled” should have the corresponding positive word, “gruntled,” that it emerged and was accepted. Granted, the word isn’t common, but the first known use of “gruntled” as an adjective to mean “in good humor” or “pleased” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) is attributed to P.G. Wodehouse, who included this sentence in his 1938 novel, “The Code of the Woosters”:
“He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
As an aside, the Merriam-Webster online dictionary puts the first use of GRUNTLED in 1926, but it doesn’t show the source. At any rate, GRUNTLED may one day indeed become commonplace.
gruntled; gruntling\ ˈgrənt-liŋ
, ˈgrən-tᵊl-iŋ \
Definition of gruntle
transitive verb
: to put in a good humor were gruntled with a good meal and good conversation— W. P. Webb
Which Came First, gruntle or disgruntle?
The verb disgruntle, which has been around since 1682, means "to make ill-humored or discontented." The prefix dis- often means "to do the opposite of," so people might naturally assume that if there is a disgruntle, there must have first been a gruntle with exactly the opposite meaning. But dis- doesn't always work that way; in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. Disgruntle developed from this intensifying sense of dis- plus gruntle, an old word (now used only in British dialect) meaning "to grumble." In the 1920s, a writer humorously used gruntle to mean "to make happy"—in other words, as an antonym of disgruntle. The use caught on. At first gruntle was used only in humorous ways, but people eventually began to use it seriously as well.
