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regret

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/

The English word “regret” has 7 meanings listed here.

verb

  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.
  2. To feel sorry about (any thing).
  3. To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.

noun

  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.
  3. The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
  4. One who was invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.

Etymology

From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from…

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