Word regret mean to you

- сожаление

to hear of smth. with regret — услышать о чём-л. с сожалением 
to my regret — к моему сожалению 

- раскаяние, сожаление

to feel regrets — испытывать раскаяние 
I have no regrets — я ни о чём не жалею, я ни в чём не раскаиваюсь 

- часто pl извинение

to express regret for smth. — сожалеть о чём-л.; извиняться, просить прощения за что-л. 
please accept my regrets — примите, пожалуйста, мои извинения, я очень сожалею (о происшедшем) 
to send regrets — вежливо отклонить приглашение (письменно) 
he did not come but sent his regrets — он не пришёл, но прислал письмо с извинениями 
to express regrets at not being able … — выразить сожаление по поводу невозможности (сделать что-л.) 

- сожалеть (о чём-л.)

I regret to say — к сожалению, должен сказать 
I regret that I cannot come on Monday — к сожалению, я не смогу прийти в понедельник 
it is to be regretted that … — достойно сожаления /прискорбно/, что … 
he died regretted by all — его кончину оплакивали все 

- раскаиваться, сожалеть

to regret having done smth. — раскаиваться в каком-л. поступке 
you will live to regret it — ты ещё об этом пожалеешь 

Мои примеры

I don’t regret moving to York. 

Я не жалею, что переехал в Йорк.

I have no regrets about leaving. 

Я не жалею об уходе.

Don’t do anything you might regret. 

Не делайте ничего, о чём бы вы могли пожалеть.

I regret having to leave so early. 

Мне жаль так рано уезжать.

I’ve never regretted the decision. 

Я никогда не жалел об этом решении.

We regret that we cannot accept your invitation. 

Мы сожалеем что не можем принять ваше приглашение.

You are so going to regret it. 

Ты так об этом пожалеешь.

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Don’t say anything you might regret later.[del]  

He recalled the evening’s debaucheries with regret.  

We regret any inconvenience caused to our customers.  

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As nouns the difference between regret and regretting

is that regret is 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 while regretting is the act by which something is regretted.

Is guilt a synonym for regret?

Is regret an emotion?

Regret is the emotion of wishing one had made a different decision in the past, because the consequences of the decision were unfavorable. Regret is related to perceived opportunity.

Does regret mean sorry?

Regret and be sorry are both used to say that someone feels sadness or disappointment about something that has happened, or about something they have done. Regret is more formal than be sorry. You can say that you regret something or are sorry about it.

What is your biggest regret in life?

The Top 20 Regrets in Life. “I spent so much time trying to please others that I neglected my own needs.” “When I was forced to choose between work and family, I chose work.” “I did some pretty ugly things to get ahead, and my conscience never let me forget them.”

What do you regret the most?

Here are their biggest regrets and their advice on how not to make the same mistakes:

Is regret a mental illness?

Regret can have damaging effects on mind and body when it turns into fruitless rumination and self-blame that keeps people from re-engaging with life. This pattern of repetitive, negative, self-focused ruminative thinking is characteristic of depression—and may be a cause of this mental health problem as well.

Is regret good?

Why do we regret? … Feeling regret reminds us to think carefully about our decisions and helps us not to make the same mistakes again. Regrets are also how we learn about ourselves, and know what it is we really want. In feeling regret, we have clarity about what outcome and things we truly want for ourselves.

Can regret make you sick?

They can even be functional if they propel you forward, determined not to make the same mistakes again. Intuitively, though, we know that left to fester, regrets can control your mood to ill effect and make you miserable.

Which is worse guilt or regret?

As an emotional response to a distressing experience, the sound of the word “guilt” is harsher and more of a self-reproach than the word “regret.” If you say, “I feel so guilty” you should make sure that the deed and circumstances surrounding it actually warrant your feeling of guilt rather than regret.

What is regret example?

Frequency: Regret is defined as to feel sorry about something that has happened or to feel sorrow about the loss of someone or something. An example of regret is a teenager feeling bad about having lied to their parents. An example of regret is a child feeling sad about their dog dying.

How do you say regret in a nice way?

Ways of saying you are sorry or regret something — thesaurus

Why you should never regret anything?

For every “failed” decision, you will make a “successful” decision. Even if you don’t hit the mark every time, by continuing to make decisions you are realizing several of your life’s purposes: to experience, to learn and to feel. Although not all decisions work out, when they do, there is nothing more life-affirming.

Can you be sorry about something but not regret it?

Take the phrase “I’m sorry,” which usually indicates that people feel regret or remorse for having caused someone pain: they wish they hadn’t done what they did or had done what they didn’t do. … That is, people can feel momentarily badly that they did something wrong, but not regret it.

What is a better word for sorry?

In this page you can discover 99 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sorry, like: sorrowful, apologetic, regretful, grieved, remorseful, contrite, penitent, melted, regret, pitiful and beggarly.

What is the difference between grief and regret?

How does regret feel like?

Regret is a negative cognitive or emotional state that involves blaming ourselves for a bad outcome, feeling a sense of loss or sorrow at what might have been, or wishing we could undo a previous choice that we made. For young people in particular, regret, although painful to experience, can be a helpful emotion.

Why do we regret the past?

Simply put, we regret choices we make, because we worry that we should have made other choices. We think we should have done something better, but didn’t. … We regret these choices, which are in the past and can’t be changed, because we compare them to an ideal path that we think we should have taken.

How do I stop regretting a decision?

Below, you’ll find seven actionable tips for surviving a poor decision.

What words mean guilt?

guilt

What’s the word for relieving guilt?

Absolve, acquit, exonerate all mean to free from blame. Absolve is a general word for this idea. To acquit is to release from a specific and usually formal accusation: The court must acquit the accused if there is not enough evidence of guilt.

Verb

Don’t say anything you might regret later.

I deeply regret what I said.

She does not regret leaving him.

He regrets not traveling more when he was younger.

He says he doesn’t regret anything that he’s done in his life.

Noun

She has no regrets about leaving him.

My greatest regret is not going to college.

To my regret, I never visited Europe.

It is with deep regret that he is announcing his resignation.

My coworker gives her regrets for not being able to attend the meeting.

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Please, tell the Headmistress that I also regret it very much

Пожалуйста, передайте госпоже директору, что я тоже очень сожалею

I regret I am forced to remove it from your charge.

Сожалею, но я вынужден снять с вас полномочия.

I regret to report, my dear sir, that your manservant has been arrested.

Сожалею, сэр, но ваш лакей под арестом.

I DEEPLY REGRET, MISS WILLOUGHBY.

Я крайне сожалею, мисс Виллоуби.

Susan, I regret to say the leopard is your problem.

Сьюзан, я сожалею, но леопард — это Ваша проблема.

Won’t you regret it?

Ты не пожалеешь ?

You won’t regret it, I tell you.

Гарантирую, ты не пожалеешь.

— You’ll regret this day, my lad!

— Ты пожалеешь, мой милый.

Perhaps you shall not regret it.

Возможно, ты не пожалеешь.

You will not regret.

Ты не пожалеешь.

I don’t regret anything !

Я не жалею!

But do you think I regret staying with your mother?

Но разве я жалею, что остался с твоей мамой?

Believe me if you want, I do not regret don’t mention it.

Верьте или нет, я ни о чём не жалею.

I don’t regret it.

Не жалею.

I could leave this place without an ounce of regret, but I can’t leave you. Come with me.

Я покину это место без сожаления, но я не могу покинуть тебя.

«But as sign of regret that events of such sorrowful nature must be arriving to those deserving of better happiness,

«но в знак сожаления, что такие горестные события происходят с теми, кто заслуживает счастья,

My regrets to Dr. Turner.

Мои сожаления доктору Тернеру.

Not a word of regret!

— Ни слова сожаления!

What would I be like if I had regrets?

На что я походил, если бы у меня были сожаления?

I regret that I have not the time to give to your exhibition now… but I’ll worry you more when I get back.

Жаль, у меня сейчас нет времени заняться выставкой, но я ей займусь, сразу же после своего возвращения.

I regret that he won’t be able to listen.

Жаль, что он этого не услышит.

Poor Lucien, how I regret that I dragged you into…

Бедный Люсьен, мне так жаль, что я втянула вас в это.

I regret that I must forbid you from entering!

Мне жаль, месье, но вам придётся зайти ещё раз.

No and I regret this, but Miss Kelly seems to want me to go with her.

Мне жаль, мисс Данфи, но мисс Келли хочет, чтобы я пошел с ней.

Just don’t do anything you’ll regret.

Просто не делай ничего такого, о чем потом пожалеешь.

Don’t do anything you’ll regret later

Не делай ничего, о чём потом пожалеешь!

But be careful and don’t do anything you’ll regret.

Но будь осторожна и не делай ничего, о чём потом пожалеешь.

Please, don’t do something that you’re gonna regret.

Пожалуйста, не делай того, о чём потом пожалеешь.

Ruth, let it go before you do something you’ll regret.

Рут, отпусти всё это, пока не сделала такого, о чём потом пожалеешь.

It was a mistake, and I regret it.

Я раскаиваюсь.

Do I regret anything?

Раскаиваюсь я? Нет.

I do not regret having political differences with men that I respect.

Я не раскаиваюсь в политических разногласиях с людьми, которых уважаю.

— Look, if I have ever done wrong in my life, I regret now.

Слушай, если я в жизни делал дурные поступки, теперь раскаиваюсь.

I swore not to change… the painful position of my body and stay like that till morning. To show Him that I’m sorry, that I’m punishing myself, that I regret what I have done.

Клялась, что буду сидеть так до утра, показывая, как я раскаиваюсь, как наказываю себя, как мне жаль о случившемся.

He allow us to live to regret about them and to obtain His forgiveness.

Он позволяет нам жить и раскаяться в грехах и получить прощение.

You know the thing about regret is that it’s never too late.

Знаешь, главное, что раскаяться никогда не поздно…

Today you’ll regret that an irreproachable lady like you— -got involved with a woman like me.

Мадам де Монтрей, сегодня вам придется раскаяться, что некогда вы связались с такой женщиной, как я.

Certain things that should not have been said, and are now regretted.

Определенные вещи, которые не стоило говорить, и за которые стоит раскаяться.

One day you really regret it.

Возможно однажды ты очень раскаешься.

Express your regrets and he’ll accept them. No. What is there to talk about?

Позвольте мне передать им ваши извинения, и я уверен, наши противники их примут.

«The commanding officer wishes me to express his personal regret for the incident in which you were accidentally involved.

«Командир части желает принести свои персональные извинения за инцидент, жертвой которого вы случайно стали.

This gold expresses my regrets.

Примите это золото в качестве извинения.

«On consulting engagement book, deeply regret am unable to come down,

Приношу свои извинения. Не могу приехать,..

My, uh regrets, if I exceeded my authority.

Примите, хм мои извинения, если я превысил свои полномочия.

Mr. Murphy, you are a habitual thief, devoid of regret and remorse.

Мистер Мерфи, Вы закоренелый вор… лишенный раскаяния и угрызений совести.

The power of grief and loss and regret.

Власть горя, потерь и раскаяния.

I am here, on my knees holding up these couch cushions as a symbol of my sorrow and regret.

Вот он я, стою на коленях держу эти диванные подушки как символ своих скорби и раскаяния.

A man full of regret and fear. Such fear.

Человек, полный раскаяния и страха, такого страха.

No cops, no questions, no regrets! I’m through with that!

Никаких полицейских, вопрос, раскаяния!

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb regret in English.

Present

I regret

you regret

he/she/it regrets

we regret

you regret

they regret

Present continuous

I am regretting

you are regretting

he/she/it is regretting

we are regretting

you are regretting

they are regretting

Present perfect

I have regretted

you have regretted

he/she/it has regretted

we have regretted

you have regretted

they have regretted

Present perfect continuous

I have been regretting

you have been regretting

he/she/it has been regretting

we have been regretting

you have been regretting

they have been regretting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

Past

I regretted

you regretted

he/she/it regretted

we regretted

you regretted

they regretted

Past continuous

I was regretting

you were regretting

he/she/it was regretting

we were regretting

you were regretting

they were regretting

Past perfect

I had regretted

you had regretted

he/she/it had regretted

we had regretted

you had regretted

they had regretted

Past perfect continuous

I had been regretting

you had been regretting

he/she/it had been regretting

we had been regretting

you had been regretting

they had been regretting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

Future

I will regret

you will regret

he/she/it will regret

we will regret

you will regret

they will regret

Future continuous

I will be regretting

you will be regretting

he/she/it will be regretting

we will be regretting

you will be regretting

they will be regretting

Future perfect

I will have regretted

you will have regretted

he/she/it will have regretted

we will have regretted

you will have regretted

they will have regretted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been regretting

you will have been regretting

he/she/it will have been regretting

we will have been regretting

you will have been regretting

they will have been regretting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

Conditional

I would regret

you would regret

he/she/it would regret

we would regret

you would regret

they would regret

Conditional continuous

I would be regretting

you would be regretting

he/she/it would be regretting

we would be regretting

you would be regretting

they would be regretting

Conditional perfect

I would have regret

you would have regret

he/she/it would have regret

we would have regret

you would have regret

they would have regret

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been regretting

you would have been regretting

he/she/it would have been regretting

we would have been regretting

you would have been regretting

they would have been regretting

Conditional or «future-in-the-past» tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

Imperative

you regret
we let´s regret
you regret

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

Past participle

regretted

Present Participle

regretting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

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I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don’t generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I’m starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes — only sooner.

I haven’t got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don’t regret it.

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

I don’t regret doing ‘The Living Daylights’. If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

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