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Synonyms & Antonyms of regretful
- gave me a regretful look when I told him we had to move my mother to a nursing home
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- dirgelike,
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- melancholy
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- dispirited,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- tearful
Near Antonyms for regretful
- ecstatic,
- elated,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- heady,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
- was truly regretful that she had yelled at him
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The first known use of regretful was in 1647
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