Usually means: Causing sorrow, disappointment, or remorse.
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  1. regrettable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. regrettable: Merriam-Webster
  3. regrettable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. regrettable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. regrettable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. regrettable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Regrettable, regrettable: Wordnik
  8. regrettable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. regrettable: Wiktionary
  10. regrettable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. regrettable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. regrettable: Dictionary.com
  13. regrettable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. regrettable: Rhymezone
  15. regrettable: FreeDictionary.org
  16. regrettable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. regrettable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. regrettable: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.

Similar:
unfortunate, too bad, reprehensible, blameworthy, censurable, reprovable, reproachable, rebukeable, condemnable, admonishable, more...

Opposite:
desirable, preferable, welcome, favorable

Types:
unfortunate, unlucky, disastrous, calamitous, tragic, catastrophic, more...

Phrases:
regrettable opinion on social media, more...

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    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     mauve,     olive, more...



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Similar:
unfortunate, too bad, reprehensible, blameworthy, censurable, reprovable, reproachable, rebukeable, condemnable, admonishable, more...

Opposite:
desirable, preferable, welcome, favorable

Types:
unfortunate, unlucky, disastrous, calamitous, tragic, catastrophic, more...

Phrases:
regrettable opinion on social media, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     mauve,     olive, more...



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