Synonyms for regretful
rɪˈgrɛt fəlre·gret·ful

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1. regretfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   sorrowful, rueful, repining

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1. regretful, sorry, badadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, deplorable, big, no-account, dismal, dark, disconsolate, uncollectible, no-count, good-for-nothing, blue, tough, no-good, unfit, high-risk, grim, sad, risky, good-for-naught, lamentable, unsound, spoilt, distressing, bad, spoiled, forged, sorry, pitiful, gloomy, drab, dingy, dreary, defective, drear, meritless

   Antonyms:
   unregretting, unregretful

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1. List of paraphrases for "regretful":

   regrettable, regret

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1. Rodolfo Gonzalez:

   Let's not try to politicize this regretful incident.

2. Kristen Stewart:

   I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   I regret the effort to repeal and immediately replace will not be successful, but that doesn’t mean we should give up, it’s regretful that our Democratic colleagues decided early on that they did not want to engage with us to help deliver that relief, but this does not have to be the end of the story.

4. Tom Saxlund:

   A lot of people are regretful they weren't fitter... but busy lives take over.

5. Val Demings of Florida:

   We have no reason to believe that The President has learned anything, if The President had, perhaps The President would have began the State of the Union address the other night by apologizing to the American people. That what The President did was wrong and The President's regretful for it. We haven't heard that.