Regretful

Quick meaning: Regretful is an adjective meaning Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.

Meaning

Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.

More Meanings

1. Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.

Example Sentences

I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us.

Smith heaved a regretful sigh. "I fear," he said, "I have made precisely the blamed fool of myself that Comrade Parker hoped I would."

There was a feeling of utter desolation in my heart, filling it with a despairing and regretful sense, that I had not gone down with Robert to the bottom of the sea.

Huck scanned his own clothing forlornly. "I reckon I ain't dressed fitten for a pirate," said he, with a regretful pathos in his voice; "but I ain't got none but these."

Synonyms for regretful

Depending on context, synonyms include repining, sorry, rueful, remorseful.

Antonyms for regretful

Common opposites include unregretful, unregretting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sorry, regrettable, regretfully, regrettably, deplorable, unfortunately.

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