ruth

noun

ˈrüth How to pronounce ruth (audio)
Definition of ruthnext
as in kindness
the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune listening to your flippant comments about the homeless, I wonder if you have any ruth

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  1. kindness
  2. sympathy
  3. compassion
  4. heart
  5. pity
  6. mercy
Noun
  • The braided and beaded trinkets are woven with messages of kindness, song lyrics or inside jokes among her devotees, who cluster in venue aisles and interminable merchandise lines at concerts to trade as part of their own secret society.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • One act of kindness and then to have that dream and that goal to be able to help others and do one step at a time to get there.
    Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of kindness
Noun
  • The wave of sympathy toward Mangione and hostility toward CEOs sparked debate about how a set of Americans had come to cheer, or at least condone, wishes of violence hurled toward corporate executives.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Online sellers, looking to cash in on the sympathies that some have expressed for Mangione, have drawn criticism.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of sympathy
Noun
  • As practitioners of empathy and compassion, associates are unbridled to become magnets for bringing out the best in others around them.
    Chip Bell, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Our brothers and sisters in crisis deserve our compassion and understanding, not violence.
    Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of compassion
Noun
  • Villeneuve’s adaptation smartly shifts our allegiance to Zendaya’s Chani, who gets elevated from a side character to the film’s beating, conflicted heart.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The game features up to 4-player co-op in a colorful world that will keep your heart pounding.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of heart
Noun
  • Even Silent Hill 2 Remake released on Steam at the same time (though not on Xbox, more’s the pity).
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Charles mixes pity and hostility in his relationship to Valentin (Nicolas Deguy), a nihilist junkie who robs church collection boxes and becomes the agent of Charles’s fate.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of pity
Noun
  • Gustavsson finally got the mercy pull after two periods (five goals on 26 shots) for Marc-Andre Fleury.
    Michael Russo, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Last year alone, SpaceX and Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer, had deals with 17 federal agences—organizations that, as Trump has proposed, are at the mercy of an outside review panel known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of mercy
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“Ruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruth. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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