Regret vs Ruminate - What's the difference?
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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).
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
* Clarendon
* Washington Irving
(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
To meditate or reflect.
To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
As verbs the difference between regret and ruminate
is that 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 while ruminate is to chew cud (said of ruminants) involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.As a noun 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 an adjective ruminate is
(botany) having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the north american papaw.regret
English
(wikipedia regret)Verb
(regrett)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. SeeDerived terms
* regretterNoun
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
See also
* remorse * repentanceExternal links
* * ----ruminate
English
Verb
(ruminat)- A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
- What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
- Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Synonyms
* See also * OrDerived terms
* ruminatorSee also
* chew the cudAdjective
(-)- a ruminate endosperm