Associations to the word «Regrettable»

Wiktionary

REGRETTABLE, adjective. Of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret.

Dictionary definition

REGRETTABLE, adjective. Deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne