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What is the adjective for regretful?

What's the adjective for regretful? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb regret which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

regretful
  1. Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.
  2. Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I sat there in quiet, feeling regretful for anything contemptible I ever thought about the many sitting in front of me.”
      “She slipped out the door, relieved that she was able to sneak out, vacating the room, before anything regretful was said or done.”
      “Her smile was slightly sad and regretful, almost pitying as she continued speaking.”
regrettable
  1. Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The harsh reality is that the two big banks see the customer as an inconvenience and workers as a regrettable cost that has to be tolerated.”
      “This is a great pity because if he had, we might have been spared the regrettable sight that assailed us earlier in the week.”
      “This dispute is a regrettable development for a product that has survived many setbacks.”
regretless
regretted
regretting
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