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Regret
/ɹiˈɡɹɛt/
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.
📖 Definitions of "Regret"
- 1
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.
- 2
Dislike; aversion.
- 1
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.
"He regretted his words."
- 2
(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
"I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice."
- 3
To miss; to feel the loss or absence of.
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