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How to pronounce “regret”
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Pronunciation guide for regret
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of regret with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Eighth Grade
do you ever feel a tinge of regret or something
- Definition summary
- 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.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce regret
Eighth Grade
do you ever feel a tinge of regret or something
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “regret”
Meaning
- [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.
- [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.
- A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
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