re·gret·ta·ble

(rĭ-grĕt′ə-bəl)

adj.

Eliciting or deserving regret: a regrettable lack of funds; regrettable remarks.

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re•gret•ta•ble

(rɪˈgrɛt ə bəl)

adj.

causing or deserving regret; unfortunate.

[1595–1605; < Middle French regret(t)able]

re•gret′ta•bly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

regrettable - deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

too bad

unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"

regrettable

adjective unfortunate, wrong, disappointing, sad, distressing, unhappy, shameful, woeful, deplorable, ill-advised, lamentable, pitiable a regrettable incident see regretful

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

regrettable

adjective

Causing sorrow or regret:

deplorable, doleful, dolorous, grievous, lamentable, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woeful.

Translations

يُؤْسَف لَه

politováníhodný

beklagelig

hörmulegur

üzücü

regrettable

[rɪˈgretəbl] ADJ → lamentable
it is regrettable that → es lamentable que + subjun, es de lamentar que + subjun

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

regrettable

[rɪˈgrɛtəb^əl] adj [fact, mistake] → regrettable
a regrettable incident → un incident regrettable
it is regrettable that ... → il est regrettable que ...

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

regrettable

adj → bedauerlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

regrettable

[rɪˈgrɛtəbl] adj (deplorable) → increscioso/a, deplorevole; (unfortunate) her absence is regrettable → ci rincresce che sia assente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

regret

(rəˈgret) – past tense, past participle reˈgretted – verb

to be sorry about. I regret my foolish behaviour; I regret that I missed the concert; I regret missing the concert; I regret to inform you that your application for the job was unsuccessful.

noun

a feeling of sorrow, or of having done something wrong. I have no regrets / I feel no regret about what I did; It was with deep regret that I heard the news of his death.

reˈgretful adjective

feeling regret.

reˈgretfully adverb

with regret. Regretfully, we have had to turn down your offer.

reˈgrettable adjective

a regrettable mistake.

reˈgrettably adverb

regrettable is spelt with two ts.

regrettable

a. lamentable; infortunado-a.

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"Early in the month a most regrettable circumstance took place.

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Now and then, as happens at all receptions everywhere, a more than ordinary friendly soul blocked the procession and kept it waiting while he inquired how the brothers liked the village, and how long they were going to stay, and if their family was well, and dragged in the weather, and hoped it would get cooler soon, and all that sort of thing, so as to be able to say, when he got home, "I had quite a long talk with them"; but nobody did or said anything of a regrettable kind, and so the great affair went through to the end in a creditable and satisfactory fashion.

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"My young friend tells me that she informed you of her regrettable outbreak of temper a few days since," he said as he handed me the volume.

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Manson Mingott's and the Headly Chiverses'); and at a time when it was beginning to be thought "provincial" to put a "crash" over the drawing-room floor and move the furniture upstairs, the possession of a ball-room that was used for no other purpose, and left for three-hundred-and-sixty-four days of the year to shuttered darkness, with its gilt chairs stacked in a corner and its chandelier in a bag; this undoubted superiority was felt to compensate for whatever was regrettable in the Beaufort past.

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"The loss of life," the journal went on to say, "although regrettable, is, so far as accounts have reached us, not large.

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Regrettable as her position is, I cannot see that she is to blame for it.

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"Pardon me, my dear," he said with affected solemnity, "for mentioning these disagreeable particulars, the natural though regrettable incidents of a conjugal quarrel-- resulting, doubtless, from the luckless wife's insubordination."

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"Certain expressions which have escaped your pen suggest to me that you blame Julian Gray as the cause of Lady Janet's regrettable visit to the Refuge the day after Mercy Merrick had left her house.

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"It was regrettable," he murmured, "but I assure you that it was unavoidable.

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It was true that after his regrettable collision with Heinrich, the waiter, he had discovered butter upon his person, but it was only one pat.

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Philander; "permit me to suggest that doubtless the Moors who were conquered in the fifteenth century will continue in that most regrettable condition for the time being at least, even though we postpone discussion of that world calamity until we may attain the enchanting view of yon FELIS CARNIVORA which distance proverbially is credited with lending."

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She created a regrettable scene when it was brought to her, because "she had been feared it would not know her again." I could have told her that they know no one for years had I not been in terror of Irene, who dandled the child on her knees and talked to it all the way.

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