Synonyms of the word

regret

• v. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened,…
• v. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
• n. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different;…
• n. (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

experience

• n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
• n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
• n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
• n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
• v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

feel

• v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
• v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
• v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
• v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
• v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
• n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
• n. A vague mental impression.
• n. An act of fondling.
• n. A vague understanding.
• n. An intuitive ability.
• n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
• pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

inform

• v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
• v. To act as an informer; denounce.
• v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
• adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

miss

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
• v. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
• v. (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
• v. (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
• v. (transitive) To fail to attend.
• v. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
• v. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
• v. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
• n. A failure to hit.
• n. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
• n. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
• n. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
• n. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
• n. An unmarried woman; a girl.
• n. A kept woman; a mistress.
• n. (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted…

refuse

• adj. Discarded, rejected.
• n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
• v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
• v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
• v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
• n. (obsolete) refusal.

repent

• v. (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting…
• v. (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice…
• v. (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
• v. (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To cause to have sorrow or regret.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
• adj. (chiefly botany) Creeping along the ground.

rue

• n. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
• n. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
• v. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had…
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
• n. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used…

ruefulness

• n. The property of being rueful.

sadness

• n. (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
• n. (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

sorrow

• n. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.
• n. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
• v. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

unhappiness

• n. The feeling of not being happy.