regret

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil To feel sorry about (any thing).

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

3. fiil To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.

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

4. isim 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.

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

5. isim Dislike; aversion.

   “Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?”

6. isim The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.

   “Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold.”

7. isim A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.