What does regretful mean?

regretful means "feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone".

How many syllables are in regretful?

regretful has 3 syllables: re-gret-ful. The stress falls on "gret". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtfəl/.

What is another word for regretful?

Close synonyms include sorry, bad. 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.

What is the opposite of regretful?

The recorded antonyms are unregretful.

Is regretful a common word?

regretful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

regretful — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
“felt regretful over his vanished youth”
“regretful over mistakes she had made”
“he felt bad about breaking the vase”
Synonymssorry bad
Antonymsunregretful

Questions about regretful

What does regretful mean?: regretful means "feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone".
How many syllables are in regretful?: regretful has 3 syllables: re-gret-ful. The stress falls on "gret". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtfəl/.
What is another word for regretful?: Close synonyms include sorry, bad. 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.
What is the opposite of regretful?: The recorded antonyms are unregretful.
Is regretful a common word?: regretful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for regretful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
“felt regretful over his vanished youth”
“regretful over mistakes she had made”
“he felt bad about breaking the vase”
Synonymssorry bad
Antonymsunregretful

Questions about regretful

What does regretful mean?: regretful means "feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone".
How many syllables are in regretful?: regretful has 3 syllables: re-gret-ful. The stress falls on "gret". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtfəl/.
What is another word for regretful?: Close synonyms include sorry, bad. 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.
What is the opposite of regretful?: The recorded antonyms are unregretful.
Is regretful a common word?: regretful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

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