Disappointed vs Regrettable - What's the difference?
disappointed | regrettable |
Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
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, title= (disappoint)
Of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret.
As adjectives the difference between disappointed and regrettable
is that disappointed is defeated of expectation or hope; let down while regrettable is of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret.As a verb disappointed
is (disappoint).disappointed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Synonyms
* discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwartedVerb
(head)regrettable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His painting his name of my car was more than regrettable , it was criminal.
- It was regrettable that the teacher made the class retake the test when he was wrong about the answers.