Definitions for regret

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regret re·gret

Spelling: [ri-gret]

IPA: /rɪˈgrɛt/

Regret is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in regret (eegrrt).

Definitions for regret

noun

1. a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.
2. a feeling of sorrow or remorse for a fault, act, loss, disappointment, etc.
3. regrets, a polite, usually formal refusal of an invitation:
4. a note expressing regret at one's inability to accept an invitation:

verb (used with object)

1. to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.):
2. to think of with a sense of loss:

Origin of regret

1300-50; Middle English regretten (v.) Middle French regreter, Old French, equivalent to re- re- + -greter, perhaps Germanic (cf. greet^2<

Examples for regret

It is based on this regret, actually, with respect to the attitude we have had toward them.

A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.

And his understandable expressions of regret—now that his book is tanking—come as too little, too late.

Then I regret to say that the boy, Robert Rushton, is unworthy of your friendship.

Percival fancied there was a look almost of regret in the girl's eyes.

If he carried her triumphantly off, doubtless his regret for that would eventually be as great.

I regret this, but did the best I could under the circumstances.

Scalise has called the talk, which he delivered in a hotel outside New Orleans, “a mistake I regret.”

Pitre is right, combat is about screw-ups, bad officers, apathetic contractors, regret, unfairness, and impossible missions.

He would not relinquish presidential power and live to regret it, like his cousin.