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/rəgrˈɛt/ /rɪgrˈɛt/ Listen

Regret

verb

(past & past part. regretted; pres. part. regretting)

Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about. Synonyms: repent, rue.

Feel sad about the loss or absence of.

Decline formally or politely.

Express with regret.

noun

Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment. Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow. "He wrote a note expressing his regret" , "To his rue, the error cost him the game"

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"Regret" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the most expensive cigar in the cigar-cabinet and lighted it as only a connoisseur can light a cigar, lovingly; he blew out the match lingeringly, with regret, and dropped it and the cigar's red collar with care into a large copper bowl on the centre table, instead of flinging it against the Japanese umbrella in the fireplace. (A grave disadvantage of radiators is that you cannot throw odds and ends into them.) He chose the most expensive cigar ...

— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... with great civility and many expressions of regret, that the design was lost: that they had made careful ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... "Joe Sibley" (Whistler)—afterwards altered to Antony, a Swiss, and ruined—a witty, a debonair and careless genius was created. Just such an impression was made upon us by this character as Whistler's own studied butterfly-pose in life seemed intended to make. It was with the greatest regret we missed the fascinating figure from the novel when published in book form, a regret even confessed to by Whistler himself, though he had not been able to refrain from dashing into print over its publication. There was none other of the Bohemians described that so endeared himself to us, or that ...

— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood

... Sarle would find no opportunity of giving expression to the things to be seen in his eyes. It was a precarious joy to read those sweet things, but she dared not let him utter them. For when the debacle came at Cape Town, he must have nothing to regret. The moment they were quit of the ship and its scandal she would be relieved of her promise to Diana and able to tell him the truth. If he had spoken no word of love to her before then he would be free as air to go his way without speaking one, while she just ...

— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... on distant expeditions, or on perilous enterprises, or to assist him with his counsel in the doubtful intrigues of a half-barbarous court. He was thus frequently, and for a long space, absent from his castle and from his lady; and to this ground of regret we must add, that their union had not been blessed with children, to occupy the attention of the Lady of Avenel, while she was thus deprived of her ...

— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott

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