Local English word record

regretful

adjective · 1 sense

feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

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Examples

  • felt regretful over his vanished youth
  • regretful over mistakes she had made
  • he felt bad about breaking the vase

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Synonyms

sorry, bad

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