REGRET: Meaning and related words

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word regret:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

regret: Merriam-Webster.com
regret: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
regret: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
regret: Collins English Dictionary
regret: Vocabulary.com
Regret, regret: Wordnik
regret: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
regret: Wiktionary
regret: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
regret: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
regret: Infoplease Dictionary
Regret, regret: Dictionary.com
regret (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
regret: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Regret (LeToya Luckett song), Regret (New Order song), Regret (The Gazette song), Regret (album), Regret (decision theory), Regret (disambiguation), Regret (emotion), Regret (game theory), Regret (horse), Regret: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Regret: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
regret: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
regret: Rhymezone
regret, regret (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
regret: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
regret: Free Dictionary
regret: Mnemonic Dictionary
regret: Dictionary/thesaurus
regret: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

regret: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Regret: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  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.
▸ verb:  (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
▸ verb:  (archaic, transitive) To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.
▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
▸ noun:  (decision theory) The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.

Similar:

repent, rue, deplore, lament, bewail, sorrow, ruefulness, bemoan, sayang, misthink, more...

Opposite:

satisfaction, contentment, relief, joy, pride

Types:

anticipatory regret, residual regret, regret aversion, regret theory, more...

Phrases:

live to regret, lived to regret, lives to regret, living to regret, Nothing to Regret, more...

Adjectives:

great, deepest, only, much, sincere, profound, least, real, bitter, genuine, vain

Colors:

gray, black, navy blue, charcoal, maroon, more...

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