Antonyms for regret
rɪˈgrɛtre·gret

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. regret

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   affliction, distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. regretverb

   Antonyms:
   welcome, hail, approve, abandon, abjure, forget, disregard

   Synonyms:
   grieve, lament, repent, miss, desiderate, deplore

2. regretnoun

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, grief, concern, remorse, lamentation, repentance

Matched Categories

1. • Feel
   • Inform
   • Miss
   • Refuse

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulnessverb

   sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

   "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"

   Synonyms:
   ruefulness, grief, rue, sorrow, sorrowfulness, herb of grace, sadness

2. repent, regret, rueverb

   feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

   Synonyms:
   atone, repent, rue

3. regretverb

   feel sad about the loss or absence of

   Synonyms:
   repent, rue

4. regretverb

   decline formally or politely

   "I regret I can't come to the party"

   Synonyms:
   repent, rue

5. regretverb

   express with regret

   "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard"

   Synonyms:
   repent, rue

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.3 / 3 votes

1. regretnoun

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, compunction, deprecation, rue

2. regretverb

   Synonyms:
   deplore, be sorry for, rue, deprecate

How to use regret in a sentence?

1. Hassan Shibly:

   To say that I regret my past words, any pain that I caused my family and any concerns I would cause my country would be hard for me to really express properly.

2. President Obama:

   I profoundly regret what happened.

3. Superintendent Philip Qualman:

   We said there were specific metrics we’d follow and when and if they changed, we would change our policies. Unfortunately, here we are, as has been the case since the beginning of the pandemic, this disease does not care about our schedules or when school starts. Nevertheless, we regret the short notice.

4. Chris Ford:

   When AVC's own hand-picked panel of experts identified flaws in the' statistical' argument that AVC had been making since early December, I conveyed this to my colleagues -- accurately and in detail on January 8 -- and I don't regret doing so.

5. Jeannie Sharon:

   Don't Regret... You Don't Know till You Go.

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