When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
Source: tatoeba (1815)
Regret
//ɹɪˈɡɹɛt//
Synonyms for "regret" (133 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (40)
Noun(13 words)
Related words (66)
Noun(22 words)
ill-beingmelancholiamelancholymiserymishappinessnostalgiapenitenceprosternationremorserepentanceruefulnessruthself-reproachsorrinesssorrowsorrowfulnesstristfulnessundelightunhappinessunsatisfaction
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More general
8 entriesAntonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
7 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
14 entriesderived from
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
108 entriesShowing 16 of 108 words.
Translations
226 translations across 81 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- keqardhje noun (instance of such an emotion)
- pendohem verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
American Sign Language
2 entries- A@Chest-PalmBack CirclesVert noun (instance of such an emotion)
- A@Chest-PalmBack CirclesVert verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μεταγιγνώσκω verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- μεταμέλομαι verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Arabic
4 entries- أَسَف noun (instance of such an emotion)
- تَأَسُّف noun (instance of such an emotion)
- تَأَسَّفَ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- نَدِمَ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Armenian
3 entries- ափսոսանք noun (instance of such an emotion)
- զղջում noun (instance of such an emotion)
- զղջալ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təəssüf noun (instance of such an emotion)
Basque
2 entries- damu noun (instance of such an emotion)
- damutu verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Belarusian
3 entries- жаль noun (instance of such an emotion)
- шкадава́нне noun (instance of such an emotion)
- шкадава́ць verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Bengali
1 entries- আফসোস noun (instance of such an emotion)
Bulgarian
4 entries- съжаление noun (instance of such an emotion)
- жаля́ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- съжаля́вам verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- съжалявам verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Catalan
4 entries- penediment noun (instance of such an emotion)
- lamentar verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- penedir-se verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- pesar verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 後悔 /后悔 noun (instance of such an emotion)
- 遺憾 /遗憾 noun (instance of such an emotion)
- 後悔 /后悔 verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- 遺憾 /遗憾 verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Czech
3 entries- lítost noun (instance of such an emotion)
- litovat verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- želet verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Danish
4 entries- anger noun (instance of such an emotion)
- beklagelse noun (instance of such an emotion)
- angre verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- beklage verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Dutch
4 entries- berouw noun (instance of such an emotion)
- spijt noun (instance of such an emotion)
- berouwen verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- betreuren verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Esperanto
3 entries- bedaŭro noun (instance of such an emotion)
- bedaŭri verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- bedaŭri verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Estonian
1 entries- kahetsema verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Faroese
4 entries- angur noun (instance of such an emotion)
- iðran noun (instance of such an emotion)
- angra verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- harmast verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Finnish
4 entries- katumus noun (instance of such an emotion)
- pahoittelu noun (instance of such an emotion)
- valittelu noun (instance of such an emotion)
- katua verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
French
2 entries- regret noun (instance of such an emotion)
- regretter verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Galician
4 entries- arrepentimento noun (instance of such an emotion)
- pesar noun (instance of such an emotion)
- arrepentir verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- lamentar verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
German
4 entries- Bedauern noun (instance of such an emotion)
- Reue noun (instance of such an emotion)
- bedauern verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- bereuen verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Gilbertese
1 entries- raraomaeakina verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐍉 noun (instance of such an emotion)
- 𐌹𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍉𐌽 verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Greek
3 entries- λύπη noun (instance of such an emotion)
- λυπούμαι verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- μετανιώνω verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Hawaiian
1 entries- mihi verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Hebrew
2 entries- חֲרָטָה noun (instance of such an emotion)
- הצטער verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Higaonon
1 entries- migbasol verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Hindi
4 entries- अफ़सोस noun (instance of such an emotion)
- पछतावा noun (instance of such an emotion)
- पश्चात्ताप noun (instance of such an emotion)
- पछताना verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Hungarian
4 entries- megbánás noun (instance of such an emotion)
- bán verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- megbán verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- sajnál verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Icelandic
3 entries- eftirsjá noun (instance of such an emotion)
- harma verb (to feel sorry about anything)
- sjá eftir verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Ido
3 entries- regreto noun (instance of such an emotion)
- regretar verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- regretar verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Ilocano
1 entries- babawi noun (instance of such an emotion)
Indonesian
2 entries- penyesalan noun (instance of such an emotion)
- menyesal verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Interlingua
4 entries- lamentar verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- lamentar verb (to feel sorry about anything)
- regrettar verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- regrettar verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Irish
2 entries- aiféala noun (instance of such an emotion)
- cathú noun (instance of such an emotion)
Italian
4 entries- pentimento noun (instance of such an emotion)
- rammarico noun (instance of such an emotion)
- rimorso noun (instance of such an emotion)
- rimpianto noun (instance of such an emotion)
Japanese
4 entries- 後悔 noun (instance of such an emotion)
- 後悔する verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- 悔いる verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- 残念に思う verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Khmer
4 entries- សេចក្ដីស្ដាយក្រោយ noun (instance of such an emotion)
- នឹកស្តាយក្រោយ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- ស្ដាយ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- ស្តាយគំនិត verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Korean
2 entries- 후회 noun (instance of such an emotion)
- 후회하다 verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Ladin
2 entries- muië verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- muië verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Latin
2 entries- lamentō verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- paeniteo verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Low German
1 entries- leed dohn verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Lutuv
1 entries- ngiepachiy verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Macedonian
1 entries- жали verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Malay
3 entries- penyesalan noun (instance of such an emotion)
- sesal verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- sesal verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- ujutsa verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Mongolian
3 entries- гэмшил noun (instance of such an emotion)
- гэмших verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- харамсах verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Māori
4 entries- kōrehu noun (instance of such an emotion)
- kaniawhea verb (to feel sorry about anything)
- kōhau verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- pōuri verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Nepali
3 entries- आत्मग्लानि noun (instance of such an emotion)
- पछुतो verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- पश्चाताप verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Norman
1 entries- r'gret noun (instance of such an emotion)
Norwegian
2 entries- anger noun (instance of such an emotion)
- beklagelse noun (instance of such an emotion)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- angre verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- beklage verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- beklage verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- angre verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- beklaga verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- beklaga verb (to feel sorry about anything)
- beklage verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Old English
2 entries- hrēow noun (instance of such an emotion)
- hrēowan verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوگنج noun (instance of such an emotion)
Persian
4 entries- افسوس noun (instance of such an emotion)
- افسوس خوردن verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- افسوسیدن verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- پشیمان شدن verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Piedmontese
2 entries- regret noun (instance of such an emotion)
- regreté verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Polish
2 entries- żal noun (instance of such an emotion)
- żałować verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Portuguese
4 entries- arrependimento noun (instance of such an emotion)
- pesar noun (instance of such an emotion)
- remorso noun (instance of such an emotion)
- arrepender-se verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Romanian
1 entries- regret noun (instance of such an emotion)
Russian
4 entries- сожале́ние noun (instance of such an emotion)
- жале́ть verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- сожале́ть verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- сожале́ть verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Sanskrit
1 entries- शोचति verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- zažaliti verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- žȁliti verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- жа̏лити verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Sindhi
1 entries- افسوس noun (instance of such an emotion)
Slovak
3 entries- ľútosť noun (instance of such an emotion)
- ľutovať verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- žialiť verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Slovene
1 entries- obžalovati verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Spanish
4 entries- arrepentimiento noun (instance of such an emotion)
- compunción noun (instance of such an emotion)
- pesar noun (instance of such an emotion)
- arrepentirse [de] verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Sundanese
2 entries- hanjakal verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- kaduhung verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Swahili
2 entries- juto noun (instance of such an emotion)
- sikitiko noun (instance of such an emotion)
Swedish
4 entries- beklagande noun (instance of such an emotion)
- ånger noun (instance of such an emotion)
- beklaga verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- beklaga verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Telugu
2 entries- విచారం noun (instance of such an emotion)
- విచారించు verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Thai
3 entries- เสียดาย verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- เสียใจ verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- เสียใจ verb (to feel sorry about anything)
Tocharian B
1 entries- onmiṃ noun (instance of such an emotion)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- belhevi noun (instance of such an emotion)
Turkish
1 entries- pişman olmak verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Ukrainian
3 entries- жаль noun (instance of such an emotion)
- жалкува́ти verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- шкодува́ти verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Urdu
1 entries- افسوس noun (instance of such an emotion)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hối hận verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
- hối tiếc verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Welsh
2 entries- gofid noun (instance of such an emotion)
- edifaru verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Yiddish
2 entries- באַדויערונג noun (instance of such an emotion)
- באַדויערן verb (feel sorry about some past thing)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Sooner or later, you will regret your idleness.
Source: tatoeba (15900)
You will soon regret your rash conduct.
Source: tatoeba (16663)
I regret that I told you.
Source: tatoeba (17429)
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