English Dictionary

regret

/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/

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.

I have a deep regret about what happened.

意味（1）

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.

What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?

意味（2）

(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?