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单词 regretful
释义

regretful

adjective

re·​gret·​ful ri-ˈgret-fəl How to pronounce regretful (audio)
: full of regret : feeling or expressing regret
feeling regretful
a regretful sigh/look
… and all that the three-year difference does is make us laugh and make us regretful about our own adolescences. Stanley Kauffmann
regretfulness noun
Even more than 40 years after Jones' death, Richards refuses to indulge in any false sentimentality or regretfulness. Greg Kot

Synonyms

  • aching
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitter
  • deploring
  • doleful
  • dolesome
  • dolorous
  • funeral
  • grieving
  • heartbroken
  • lamentable
  • lugubrious
  • mournful
  • plaintive
  • plangent
  • rueful
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • woeful
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Word History

First Known Use

1647, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

regretful

adjective

re·​gret·​ful
ri-ˈgret-fəl
: feeling or showing regret

regretful

adjective

1
as in heartbroken
expressing or suggesting mourning gave me a regretful look when I told him we had to move my mother to a nursing home

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • heartbroken
  • mournful
  • weeping
  • bitter
  • sad
  • funeral
  • unhappy
  • grieving
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • melancholy
  • anguished
  • tearful
  • lamentable
  • rueful
  • wailing
  • agonized
  • doleful
  • depressed
  • aching
  • somber
  • plaintive
  • lugubrious
  • bewailing
  • woeful
  • bemoaning
  • dolorous
  • deploring
  • crying
  • plangent
  • dejected
  • morbid
  • bleak
  • heartsick
  • dark
  • miserable
  • pathetic
  • keening
  • dolesome
  • dispirited
  • crestfallen
  • funereal
  • disconsolate
  • despondent
  • downhearted
  • downcast
  • elegiac
  • forlorn
  • inconsolable
  • moody
  • downhearted
  • downcast
  • groaning
  • gloomy
  • miserable
  • glum
  • moaning
  • darkening
  • woebegone
  • brokenhearted
  • careworn
  • desolate
  • pessimistic
  • sullen
  • suffering
  • morose
  • heartsore
  • elegiacal
  • piteous
  • cheerless
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • low-spirited
  • howling
  • wretched
  • bawling
  • triste
  • joyless
  • bleeding
  • dismal
  • gray
  • black
  • dirgelike
  • comfortless
  • low
  • yammering
  • dreary
  • saturnine
  • sombre
  • grey

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • happy
  • joyful
  • triumphant
  • cheerful
  • delighted
  • smiling
  • cheery
  • joyous
  • bright
  • hopeful
  • optimistic
  • laughing
  • blissful
  • merry
  • rejoicing
  • mirthful
  • jolly
  • exulting
  • lighthearted
  • ecstatic
  • blithe
  • giddy
  • buoyant
  • encouraging
  • euphoric
  • glorying
  • rapturous
  • cheering
  • blithesome
  • rhapsodic
  • jocund
  • elated
  • exhilarated
  • rhapsodical
  • heady
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2
as in remorseful
feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done was truly regretful that she had yelled at him

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • remorseful
  • ashamed
  • sorry
  • apologetic
  • repentant
  • rueful
  • contrite
  • penitent
  • sheepish
  • shamefaced
  • sorrowful
  • compunctious
  • mournful
  • grieving
  • weeping
  • plaintive
  • lugubrious
  • wailing
  • woeful
  • dolorous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • unrepentant
  • unapologetic
  • remorseless
  • cruel
  • ruthless
  • pitiless
  • impenitent
  • merciless
  • shameless
  • unmerciful
  • unashamed
  • compassionless
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