1 in a way that shows you are sad or disappointed about sth:
'I'm afraid not,' he said regretfully. * Emma shook her head regretfully.
2 used to show that you are sorry that sth is the case and you wish the situation were different
SYNREGRETTABLY:
There is, regretfully, no space in this article to examine all these issues. * Regretfully, mounting costs have forced the museum to close.
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WHICHWORD?
regretfully / regrettably
Regretfully and regrettably can both be used as sentence adverbs to show that you are sorry about something and wish the situation were different: Regretfully, some jobs will be lost. * Regrettably, some jobs will be lost.
Regretfully can also be used to mean 'in a way that shows you are sad or disappointed about something': He sighed regretfully.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of regretfully come from?
This entry for regretfully is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is regretfully a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, regretfully is tagged as adverb.
Does regretfully appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — regretfully appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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