Rebuke vs Regret - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rebuke and regret

is that rebuke is a harsh criticism while regret is 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.

As verbs the difference between rebuke and regret

is that rebuke is to criticise harshly; to reprove while regret is 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.

rebuke

English

Noun

(en noun)

A harsh criticism.

* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

Verb

(rebuk)

To criticise harshly; to reprove.

Synonyms

* See also

regret

English

(wikipedia regret)

Verb

(regrett)

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.

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(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).

Usage notes

This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. See

Derived terms

* regretter

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.

* Macaulay

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

* Clarendon

Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

* Washington Irving

From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

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