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unregretful


adjective

  1. full of regret; sorrowful because of what is lost, gone, or done.

adj.1640s, “full of regret,” from regret + -ful. Regretfully, properly “with regret,” incorrectly used in place of regrettably “it is to be regretted that; calling for regret” since at least 1965. “A regrettable use, prob. after HOPEFULLY adv.2” [OED].

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