regret
Meaning of regret
noun
- 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.
- Dislike; aversion.
- 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.
- (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.
- 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:
Meaning repent:
Translation of regret
- French: regret, repentir, remords, contrition, nostalgie, repentance, regretter, déplorer
- German: Reue, bedauern, bereuen
- Italian: rammarico, rimorso, rimpianto, rincrescimento, pentirsi, deplorare, rimpiangere
- Portuguese: pesar
- Spanish: pesar
Words that rhyme with regret
gret, egret, semiegret, Maigret, aigret, langret, Margret
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