regret
IPA: rʌgrˈɛt
noun
- 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.
- (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
- (decision theory) The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
verb
- To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
- (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
- (archaic, transitive) To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.
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