regretful

Meaning of regretful

adjective
  1. feeling or showing regret.
    he sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself

Information about regretful

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of regretful

re-gret-ful

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • regretful is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

regretful synonyms

Meaning sorry:

sorry, bad

Meaning filled with remorse; sorry:

remorseful

Meaning feeling or expressing remorse at the recognition that one has done wrong:

contrite

Meaning expressing or feeling sincere regret and remorse; remorseful:

repentant

Meaning expressing sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous way:

rueful

Meaning feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant:

penitent

Meaning expressing or showing regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure:

apologetic

Meaning (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree:

abject

Meaning conscious of, affected by, or revealing a feeling of guilt:

guilty

Meaning embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, characteristics, or associations:

ashamed

Meaning feeling or expressing shame or embarrassment:

shamefaced

Meaning showing or feeling embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence:

sheepish

Meaning feeling fear or anxiety; frightened:

afraid

Meaning characterized by guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad:

compunctious

Meaning feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy:

sad

Meaning not happy:

unhappy

Meaning feeling or showing grief:

sorrowful

Meaning sad and depressed; dispirited:

dejected

Meaning (of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency:

depressed

Meaning (of a person's eyes) looking downwards:

downcast

Meaning (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable:

miserable

Meaning discouraged; in low spirits:

downhearted

Meaning directed or moving towards a lower place or position:

down

Meaning in low spirits from loss of hope or courage:

despondent

Meaning showing the loss of all hope:

despairing

Meaning very unhappy and unable to be comforted:

disconsolate

Meaning (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness:

desolate

Meaning (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state:

wretched

Meaning looking or feeling dejected; morose:

glum

Meaning dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening:

gloomy

Meaning causing a mood of gloom or depression:

dismal

Meaning of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day:

blue

Meaning having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:

melancholy

Meaning feeling or expressing pensive sadness:

melancholic

Meaning feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief:

mournful

Meaning characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery:

woeful

Meaning sad or miserable in appearance:

woebegone

Meaning expressing sorrow; mournful:

doleful

Meaning pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:

forlorn

Meaning sad and disappointed:

crestfallen

regretful antonyms

Meaning showing no regret for one's wrongdoings:

unrepentant

Meaning feeling pleasure or happiness:

glad

Words that rhyme with regretful

batful, boatful, entreatful, hatful, heatful, retreatful, sweatful, threatful, throatful, vatful, wlatful, debtful, doubtful, misdoubtful, predoubtful, undoubtful, conflictful, disrespectful, effectful, factful, impactful, irrespectful, neglectful, overneglectful, preneglectful, respectful, suspectful, tactful, unneglectful, unrespectful, unsuspectful, untactful, basketful, bucketful, budgetful, closetful, disquietful, fleetful, forgetful, fretful, gobletful, jetful, netful, pamphletful, petful, pocketful, sheetful, socketful, streetful, sweetful

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