Contextualizebeta

regret

verb
/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d-der. Proto-Germanic *grētaną Frankish *grātander. Old French *greter Old French regreterbor. Middle English regretten English regret From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet.

  1. derived from *gʰrewd-✻ — “to weep, be sad”
  2. derived from *greutaną✻ — “to weep, cry”
  3. derived from *greutan✻ — “to cry, weep”
  4. derived from *ǵʰreh₁d-✻ — “to sound”
  5. derived from *grētaną✻ — “to weep”
  6. derived from *grātan✻ — “to weep, mourn, lament”
  7. derived from regreter
  8. inherited from regretten

Definitions

  1. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink

    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.

    • He regretted his words.
    • I don't regret enrolling in law, but I regret not studying some Chinese.

  2. To feel sorry about (any thing).

    • I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.
    • They said they regretted to inform us that the train would be late.

  3. To miss

    To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.

    • He more than ever regretted his home, and with increased desire longed to see his family.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that…

      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.

      • 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.

    2. Dislike

      Dislike; aversion.

      • Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?

    3. The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.

      • Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold.
      • Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө). Subtracting these unavoidable losses, we obtain the regret table, Table 1.7, and the average regret table, Table 1.8.

    4. A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this…

      A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at regret. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01regret02wish03desired04desire05entreat06plea07apology

A definitional loop anchored at regret. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at regret

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA