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regrettable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective regrettable has 1 sense
- regrettable(s = adj.all) too bad - deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
regrettable, adj. (of events or conduct) undesirable, unwelcome; deserving censure.
Derivative
regrettably adv.
THESAURUS
regrettable
abominable, affecting, afflictive, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despicable, detestable, dire, discomforting, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, horrible, horrid, infamous, joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, rank, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rough, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shaming, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sore, sorrowful, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, tough, unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, upsetting, vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrongROGET THESAURUS
regrettable
Regret
N regret, repining, homesickness, nostalgia, mal du pays, maladie, lamentation, penitence, bitterness, heartburning, recrimination (accusation), laudator temporis acti, regretting, regretful, homesick, regretted, much to be regretted, regrettable, lamentable, regrettably, unfortunately, most unfortunately, Int, alas!, what a pity!, hang it!, 'tis pity, 'tis too true, sigh'd and look'd and sigh'd again, I'm sorry.
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