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Regretful vs Bored - What's the difference?

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Regretful is a related term of bored.


As adjectives the difference between regretful and bored

is that regretful is full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets while bored is suffering from boredom.

As a verb bored is

(bore).

regretful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.
  • Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.

    • Synonyms

    * (full of regret) repining, rueful, sorrowful

    Derived terms

    * regretfully * regretfulness * unregretful

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    bored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bore)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
    • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

    • Related terms

    * bore * boredom * boring

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