regrettable

1. 1.

   deserving regret

   “regrettable remarks”

   “it's regrettable that she didn't go to college”

   “it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church”

   Synonymstoo bad

   Similarunfortunate

Questions about regrettable

What does regrettable mean?

regrettable means "deserving regret".

How many syllables are in regrettable?

regrettable has 4 syllables: re-gret-ta-ble. The stress falls on "gret". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtəbəl/.

What is another word for regrettable?

Close synonyms include too 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.