Regret vs. Resent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Regret and Resent
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Regret
Regret is the emotion of wishing one had made a different decision in the past, because the consequences of the decision were unfavorable. Regret is related to perceived opportunity.
Resent
Feel bitterness or indignation at (a circumstance, action, or person)
She resented the fact that I had children
Regret
Feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that one has done or failed to do)
She immediately regretted her words
I always regretted that I never trained
Resent
To feel indignantly aggrieved at.
Regret
A feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over an occurrence or something that one has done or failed to do
He had to decline, to his regret
She expressed her regret at Virginia's death
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Resent
(transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.
The bride greatly resented being left at the church.
Regret
To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about
I regret not speaking to her before she left.
Resent
(transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.
Regret
To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn
"He almost regretted the penury which he had suffered during the last two years since the desperate struggle merely to keep body and soul together had deadened the pain of living" (W. Somerset Maugham).
Resent
To be sensible of; to feel.
Regret
To feel regret.
Resent
In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
Regret
A feeling of sorrow, disappointment, distress, or remorse about something that one wishes could be different.
Resent
(obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent, to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
Regret
A sense of loss and longing for someone or something gone or passed out of existence
"We have both had flashes of regret for those vanished, golden people" (Anne Rivers Siddons).
Resent
(obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
Regret
Regrets A courteous expression of regret, especially at having to decline an invitation.
Resent
Simple past tense and past participle of resend
The package was resent, this time with the correct postage.
Regret
To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
He regretted his words.
Resent
To be sensible of; to feel
Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.
Regret
(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.
Resent
In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
Regret
To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.
Resent
To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.
The good prince King James . . . bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely.
Regret
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.
Resent
To feel resentment.
Regret
(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
Resent
To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
The judicious prelate will prefer a drop of the sincere milk of the word before vessels full of traditionary pottage resenting of the wild gourd of human invention.
Regret
(decision theory) The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
Resent
Feel bitter or indignant about;
She resents being paid less than her co-workers
Regret
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.
What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
Resent
Wish ill or allow unwillingly
Regret
Dislike; aversion.
Regret
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.
Calmly he looked on either life, and hereSaw nothing to regret, or there to fear.
In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader.
Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken.
Regret
Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment;
He drank to drown his sorrows
He wrote a note expressing his regret
To his rue, the error cost him the game
Regret
Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
Regret
Feel sad about the loss or absence of
Regret
Decline formally or politely;
I regret I can't come to the party
Regret
Be sorry;
I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard
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