regretful

Adjective

Meaning

Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bad sorry sorrowful rueful down blue penitent crestfallen guilty unhappy depressed disappointed sad miserable ashamed

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Antonyms

jolly blithe remorseless content happy satisfied

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Phrases with the word

not regretful be regretful about be regretful at be regretful

Examples

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. Mary Oliver

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. Bertrand Russell

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner. David Carradine

How great the grandfathers are, but how regretful what they left behind. Arabic Proverb

felt regretful over his vanished youth Source: Internet

regretful over mistakes she had made Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

regret rape regret to say regretable regretfully regretfulness regretless