regretful

adjective

re·gret·ful ri-ˈgret-fəl

Synonyms of regretful next

: 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

Examples of regretful in a Sentence

gave me a regretful look when I told him we had to move my mother to a nursing home was truly regretful that she had yelled at him

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He's earned this opportunity by growing into what appears to be a good young man after being, like many of us, a youth full of regretful decisions. —

Phil Hay, The Athletic, 3 Aug. 2024 Neither damning nor satiric, W. is oddly wistful, almost regretful — rare sentiments in a Stone film. —

Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024 The r/Anxiety subreddit is filled with folks who report feeling panicky, empty, regretful, or guilty as day transitions to night. —

Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 16 Oct. 2024 The irony is that songwriter Ezra Koenig and his buddies can’t relinquish memories, which inform, on the transportive B-side, the most somber, regretful music of their career. —

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