Definition of Regret

Re`gret´   Pronunciation: r?`gr?t´
n.1.Pain of mind 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; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.
What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
- Macaulay.
Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
- W. Irving.
2.Dislike; aversion.
v. t.1.To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.
[imp. & p. p. Regretted (-tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Regretting.]
Calmly he looked on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.
- Pope.
In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader.
- Macaulay.
Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken.
- Macaulay.


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