regret

1. 1.

   sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

   “he drank to drown his sorrows”

   “he wrote a note expressing his regret”

   “to his rue, the error cost him the game”

   Synonymssorrowrueruefulness

   Broadersadness

   Narrowerattritioncompunction

Other forms of regret

plural

regrets·

past tense or participle

regretted

present participle

regretting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about regret

What does regret mean?

regret means "feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regret?

regret has 2 syllables: re-gret. The stress falls on "gret". In IPA it is /ɹəˈɡɹɛt/.

What is another word for regret?

Close synonyms include repent, rue, sorrow, rue, ruefulness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is regret a common word?

regret is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.