Synonyms for regretful
rɪˈgrɛt fəlre·gret·ful

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1. regretfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   sorrowful, rueful, repining

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1. regretful, sorry, badadjective

   feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

   "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, deplorable, big, no-account, dismal, dark, disconsolate, uncollectible, no-count, good-for-nothing, blue, tough, no-good, unfit, high-risk, grim, sad, risky, good-for-naught, lamentable, unsound, spoilt, distressing, bad, spoiled, forged, sorry, pitiful, gloomy, drab, dingy, dreary, defective, drear, meritless

   Antonyms:
   unregretting, unregretful

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1. List of paraphrases for "regretful":

   regrettable, regret

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1. Rodolfo Gonzalez:

   Let's not try to politicize this regretful incident.

2. Paul Ryan:

   Obviously last Friday was regretful. Obviously, House Republican members did not want to see House Republican members members take down the farm bill.

3. Joe Rogan:

   I'm making this video to talk about the most regretful and shameful thing that I've ever had to talk about publicly. There's a video that's out that's a compilation of me saying the N-word. It's a video that's made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it's all smushed together. And it looks f---ing horrible, even to me.

4. Val Demings of Florida:

   We have no reason to believe that The President has learned anything, if The President had, perhaps The President would have began the State of the Union address the other night by apologizing to the American people. That what The President did was wrong and The President's regretful for it. We haven't heard that.

5. Joseph Wu:

   I along with our country's people feel sad, angry and regretful, china grabbing our allies and giving us pressure in the diplomatic space will not shrink the distance across the (Taiwan) strait and will not let cross-strait relations walk on a peaceful, friendly path.