intransitive verb. To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about.

intransitive verb. To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn.

intransitive verb. To feel regret.

noun. A feeling of sorrow, disappointment, distress, or remorse about something that one wishes could be different.

noun. A sense of loss and longing for someone or something gone or passed out of existence.

noun. A courteous expression of regret, especially at having to decline an invitation.

To look back at with sorrow; feel grief or sorrowful longing for on looking back.

To grieve at; be mentally distressed on account of: as, to regret one's rashness; to regret a choice made.

Synonyms To rue, lament. See repentance.

noun. Grief or trouble caused by the want or loss of something formerly possessed; a painful sense of loss; desire for what is gone; sorrowful longing.

noun. Pain or distress of mind, as at something done or left undone; the earnest wish that something had not been done or did not exist; bitterness of reflection.

noun. Dislike; aversion.

noun. An expression of regret: commonly in the plural.

noun. A written communication expressing sorrow for inability to accept an invitation.

noun. Synonyms Concern, Sorrow, lamentation.

noun. Penitence, Compunction, etc. See repentance.

transitive verb. To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something)

noun. Pain of mind 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; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.

noun. Dislike; aversion.

verb. To feel sorry about (a thing that has happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

verb. To feel sorry about (any thing).

noun. The instance of such an emotion.

verb. feel sad about the loss or absence of

verb. express with regret

verb. feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

verb. decline formally or politely

noun. sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

"My main regret is that I hardly ever finish my projects."

mourn  remorse  repentance  sorrow  

English words containing but not directly derived from: regret  

English words derived from: regret  regretted  regretter  regretting  

decline  experience  feel  miss  refuse  

Annette  Antoinette  Bernadette  Bizet  Bret  

awe  dismay  indignation  perplexity  reluctance  

abject apology  acknowledgment  affliction  anguish  apologies  

regretted  regretting  

regrets  regretted  regretting