Associations to the word «Regretful»

Wiktionary

REGRETFUL, adjective. Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.
REGRETFUL, adjective. Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.

Dictionary definition

REGRETFUL, adjective. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope