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re·gret·ful  (r-grtfl)

adj.

Full of regret; sorrowful or sorry.

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re·gretful·ly adv.

re·gretful·ness n.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

regretful - feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" sorry, bad penitent, repentant - feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds unregretful, unregretting - feeling no regret; "was completely unregretful about what had happened"

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regretful

adjective sorry, disappointed, sad, ashamed, apologetic, mournful, rueful, contrite, sorrowful, repentant, remorseful, penitent

USAGE Regretful and regretfully are sometimes wrongly used where regrettable and regrettably are meant. A simple way of making the distinction is that when you regret something YOU have done, you are regretful: he gave a regretful smile; he smiled regretfully. In contrast, when you are sorry about an occurrence you did not yourself cause, you view the occurrence as regrettable: this is a regrettable (not regretful) mistake; regrettably (not regretfully, i.e. because of circumstances beyond my control) I shall be unable to attend.

Translations

regretful [rɪˈgrɛtful] adj → pesaroso, arrepentido