Definitions for regrets

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regrets re·gret

Spelling: [ri-gret]

IPA: /rɪˈgrɛt/

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

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in regrets (eegrrst).

Definitions for regrets

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 regrets

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

Examples for regrets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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