Meaning of Regret | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
   countable, uncountable
2. Dislike; aversion.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
   countable, uncountable
4. A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?”

“Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.”

“From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.”

“Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?”

“Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold.”

“Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө). Subtracting these unavoidable losses, we obtain the regret table, Table 1.7, and the average regret table, Table 1.8.”

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