regretとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/, /ɹəˈɡɹɛt/, /ɹiˈɡɹɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

動詞

regret (三人称単数 現在形 regrets, 現在分詞 regretting, 過去形および過去分詞形 regretted)

1. To feel sorry about (a thing that has または has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

   He regretted his words.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

   • 2004 November 9, Halo 2, Microsoft Studios, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully):

     Dear humanity, we regret bein' alien bastards, we regret comin' to Earth, and we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!

2. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).

   I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.

3. (archaic, transitive) To miss; to feel the loss or absence of.
   • 1845, The Church of England Magazine (volume 19, page 301)

     He more than ever regretted his home, and with increased desire longed to see his family.

使用する際の注意点

• "Regret" is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the -ing form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

派生語

• regretter

名詞

regret (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 regrets)

1. Emotional pain 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.
   • 1828, Thomas Macaulay, John Dryden

     What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?

   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

     From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

2. (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Dr. H. More to this entry?)

派生語

• regretful

参考

• remorse
• repentance

Further reading

• regret in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• regret in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.