Regret

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

42 more languages

العربيةأسفالأسفتأسفحسرةندامةندم+ 3 more

Azərbaycan dilitəəssüf

Беларускаяжаль

বাংলাআফসোস

Bosanskizalžalžaljenjeжаљење+ 1 more

Catalàpenediment

Češtinalítostpolitování

Cymraeggofid

Danskangerbeklagelse

Ελληνικάλύπη

Euskaradamu

فارسیافسوس

Suomikatumuspahoitteluvalittelu

Gaeilgeaiféalacathú

Gàidhligaithreachas

Galegoarrepentimentopesarremorso

עבריתחרטהצער

हिन्दीअफ़सोसआत्मग्लानिखेदपछतावापश्चात्तापफ़िराक़हैफ़+ 4 more

Hrvatskizalžalžaljenjeжаљење+ 1 more

Magyarmegbánás

Հայերենափսոսանքզղջում

Bahasa Indonesiakesayanganpenyesalansesal

Italianopentimentorammaricorimorsorimpianto+ 1 more

日本語くいくやみリグレット後悔心残り悔惋憖憾残心残念無念遺恨+ 10 more

한국어嗛아쉬움유감후회+ 1 more

Kurdîesefpesarzal

Latinapaenitentia

Монголгэмшил

Bahasa Melayupenyesalan

Nederlandsberouwspijt

Polskiżal

Portuguêsarrependimentopesarremorso

Русскийсожаление

سنڌيافسوس

Shqipkeqardhje

Српскиzalžalžaljenjeжаљење+ 1 more

Svenskaångerbeklagande

Kiswahilijutosikitiko

తెలుగువిచారం

Türkçeesefnedametteessüfyazık+ 1 more

Українськажаль

اردوافسوس

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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