regretting

verbbe upset about

Synonyms for regretting

verb be upset about

Antonyms for regretting

lamenting

adjective. sobbing

Word Origin & History

"to look back with distress or sorrowful longing; to grieve for on remembering," late 14c., from Old French regreter "long after, bewail, lament someone's death; ask the help of" (Modern French regretter), from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + -greter, possibly from Frankish or some other Germanic source (cf. Old English grætan "to weep;" Old Norse grata "to weep, groan"), from Proto-Germanic *gretan "weep." "Not found in other Romance languages, and variously explained" [Century Dictionary].

Related: Regretted; regretting. Replaced Old English ofþyncan, from of- "off, away," here denoting opposition, + þyncan "seem, seem fit" (as in methinks).

Example Sentences for regretting

I gave way to my despair, regretting that I had let him go away.

But as it has gone so far, and it is necessary for us to act, it is of no use shrinking or regretting.

Ever since he had been a master-printer on his own account, he had been regretting the fact.

At every hour, he had to listen to his wife praising and regretting her first husband.

You will be regretting by now that you did not kill me too, as I invited you on that occasion.

It was the castle-building of that time that I was regretting.

The Liberal party had been regretting their loss of opportunity in 1870.

Stephen, regretting that he had begun, since a volcano might be the consequence, was obliged to go on.

We have had our time for regretting the loss of men of genius during the war.

Have you pocketed it, regretting your lapse into the unaccustomed paths of generosity?

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