Clues for the word "REGRET"
We've had 49 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 142 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 07, 2025.
Definition of regret
- v. - Pain of mind 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; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.
- v. - Dislike; aversion.
- v. t. - To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.
Referring Clues
- "What if" feeling
- Wish undone
- Rue
- "That I have but one life to lose for my country," to Hale
- "To ___ deeply is to live afresh": Thoreau
- Product of hindsight, sometimes
- Lament
- Contrition
- Apology element
- Be sorry for
- Bemoan
- Feel remorse
- Feel bad about
- Feel contrition
- Feel sorry about
- Have second thoughts
- Word in a famous Hale quote
- Kick oneself over
- Kick oneself for
- Remorse
- Contrite feeling
- Feel contrite
- Feel bad for
- Wish otherwise
- First Derby-winning filly
- Be sorry about
- Sense of loss
- Having "but one life to give for my country," to Hale
- Emulate Miss Otis
- Deplore
- Tantric song they wish undone?
- New Order song they're not proud of?
- Compunction
- See 10
- Ruth or Rachel's first bird
- Feel sorry when soldiers get to guard Roundhead
- Feel sorry for river bird
- Feel contrite about
- Be remorseful about
- River bird may have second thoughts
- Rue, repine
- Sorrow registered upon return?
- Beat oneself up over, say
- "We ___ to inform you ..."
- "A man has cause for ___ only when he sows and no one reaps": Charles Goodyear
- Facepalm emotion
- Feel guilty about
- Feel sorry for
- Wish one could take back
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 11, 2025
- LA Times - September 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2024
- USA Today - November 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 06, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 03, 2023
- LA Times - July 19, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 14, 2023
- USA Today - May 11, 2023
- And in 112 more crossword puzzles...