Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of regret; sorrowful or sorry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of regret; sorrowful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of feelings of
regret , indulging in regrets. - adjective Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is the winds of God that dries my vain regretful tears,
May 2004 2004
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He called these manipulators "regretful" but never clearly indicated who they were.
Shirin Sadeghi: Still-President Mubarak's Second Round of Threats Shirin Sadeghi 2011
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He called these manipulators "regretful" but never clearly indicated who they were.
Shirin Sadeghi: Still-President Mubarak's Second Round of Threats Shirin Sadeghi 2011
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In Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi called it "regretful" that all sides were hard-line in their campaigns.
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_Wonderful Woman_ is perhaps less a novel than an analysis -- painfully close, with a kind of regretful brutality in it -- of one special type of femininity, and a glance at several others.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 Various
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She talked of it sort of sad, kind of regretful, as if she was sorry, but felt that it had to be.
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And then, how Constance would have smiled over Beatrice's ideals -- her "fluffy" evenings -- in a kind of regretful, wondering way; almost as she had smiled when she first called me "Dick," in asking what had become of our staid English reserve; as she watched the noisy crowd in Fleet Street, singing its silly doggerel about England's security and England's "dibs."
The Message 1912
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Anyone placing sanctions on Iran would be "regretful", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Speaking on the drills 'fourth day, Guards commander Massoud Jazayeri said Iran had a deterrence plan which would make the enemy "regretful" if they launched any attack against the country, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Speaking on the drills 'fourth day, Guards commander Massoud Jazayeri said Iran had a deterrence plan which would make the enemy "regretful" if they launched any attack against the country, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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