• (British, America) IPA: /ˈɹuːθ.fʊl/

ruthful

1. Full of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful.
2. Causing pity; piteous.
   • c. 1588-1593, William Shakespeare, The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 1,

     An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius, / 'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak; / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres, / Acts of black night, abominable deeds, / Complots of mischief, treason, villainies, / Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:

   • 1808 February 21, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth. The Camp.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Printed by J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616 ↗, stanza XVI, page 202 ↗:

     When last this ruthful month was come, / And in Linlithgow’s holy dome / The King, as wont, was praying; [...]

3. Full of ruth or pity; merciful; compassionate.
   • 1898, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7,

     Then he bestowed robes of honour on the nurses wet and dry and said to them, "Be ye ruthful over them and rear them after the goodliest fashion."

• (full of ruth) compassionate, merciful

• (full of ruth) ruthless

• ruth

• Spanish: afligido, triste