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Regretting vs Regretful - What's the difference?

regretting | regretful |

As a verb regretting

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun regretting

is the act by which something is regretted.

As an adjective regretful is

full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.

regretting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is regretted.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • And for all I then declined / O the regrettings infinite / When the night-processions flit / Through the mind!

    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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