regret

Betekenis (Engels)

1. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
2. To feel sorry about (any thing).
3. To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.

sorrow

repent

be sorry

feel sorrow

feel sorry

be sad

be sorrowful

repent of

feel remorse

be sorry about

feel sad

be depressed

yearn for

be grieved

I regret that

be disconsolate

be melancholic

think a pity

be melancholy

be vexed

correct oneself

feel pain

humble oneself

look aside

sorry for

take to heart

be penitent

feel bitter

matter for regret

lean to one side

lingering affection

resipiscence

shame

feel sorry for the loss

cause to repent

have a feeling of remorse

be contrite

be penitent for

be sorry to grudge

gainbite

repetance

be disappointed

be sorry for

do penance

mourn for

mourn over

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/

From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet.

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