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regretful

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9 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted eefglrrtuStarts with REnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

Word origin

From regret + -ful.

Used in a sentence

  • I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us.
  • There was a feeling of utter desolation in my heart, filling it with a despairing and regretful sense, that I had not gone down with Robert to the bottom of the sea.
  • Huck scanned his own clothing forlornly. "I reckon I ain't dressed fitten for a pirate," said he, with a regretful pathos in his voice; "but I ain't got none but these."

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