Dictionary entry

Regretting

Pronunciation: /rɪˈɡrɛt/

Pronunciation

/rɪˈɡrɛt/

Myanmar Meaning

(v[ing]) ဝမ်းနည်းနေ

Definition

regret /r'gret/ v ( -tt- ) (က) ဝမ္းနည္းသည္။ စိတ္ထိခိုက္သည္ (သို႔) ေနာင္တရသည္။ His death was regretted by all. ❍ If you go now, you'll regret it (ie You will wish you had, stayed). ❍ You ought to buy a microwave; you won't regret it. ❍ I don't regret what I said. ❍ I regret (his) ever having raised the matter. ❍ ( fml ) It is to be regretted that so many young people leave school without qualifications. (ခ) စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ဝမ္းနည္းသည္။ We regret any inconvenience caused. ❍ The terrorists issued a statement regretting the boy's death. ❍ I regret that I cannot help. ❍ We regret to inform you that your application has been unsuccessful. ❍ The experiment was a failure, I regret to say. n [U, C] ဝမ္းနည္းျခင္း။ စိတ္မေကာင္းျခင္း။ feel regret about a missed opportunity ❍ express regret at sb's death ❍ It is with profound/ deep/ great regret that I have to announce the closure of the factory. ❍ Much to my regret, I am unable to accept your invitation. ❍ I have no regrets about leaving. ❍ My only regret is that I didn't leave sooner. ❏ regretful /-fl/ adj ဝမ္းပန္းတနည္း။ ဝမ္းနည္းပန္းနည္း။ စိတ္မေကာင္းေသာ(တဲ့)။ ‘I'll have to go now. ’ She sounded regretful. ❏ regretfully /-fǝli/ adv ညိႇဳးငယ္စြာ။ စိတ္မခ်မ္းေျမ႕စြာျဖင့္။ ဝမ္းနည္းစြာ။ He shook his head regretfully. ❍ Regretfully, I must decline. ❏ regrettable /-ǝbl/ adj စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာ။ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္။ a regrettable failure/ lapse/ mistake ❍ Her rudeness was most regrettable. ❍ It is regrettable that the police were not informed sooner. ❏ regrettably /-ǝbli/ adv အားမရစရာေကာင္းေလာက္ ေအာင္။ ဝမ္းနည္းစြာ။ regrettably slow progress ❍ Regrettably, the experiment ended in failure.

Examples

  1. We regret any inconvenience caused by the delay.
  2. [regret (that)] : I regret that I will not be with you on such an important occasion.
  3. Have you never done anything you regret?
  4. I’m glad you’re coming with us. You won’t regret it.
  5. [regret doing something] : I don’t regret moving to York.
  6. [live to regret something] : This is one decision you’ll live to regret.
  7. [deeply regret] : I deeply regret what happened – there is no excuse for it.