regret

Meaning of regret

noun
  1. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
  2. Dislike; aversion.
verb
  1. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
    He regretted his words.
  2. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
    I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.
  3. To miss; to feel the loss or absence of.

Information about regret

  • The plural form of regret is: regrets.
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Hyphenation of regret

re-gret

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • regret is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

regret synonyms

Meaning sorrow:

sorrow, rue, ruefulness

Meaning repent:

repent, rue

Translation of regret

Words that rhyme with regret

gret, egret, semiegret, Maigret, aigret, langret, Margret

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