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Synonyms for regretful
The synonym for regretful recorded in this bank is sorry, in the sense "feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for regretful
- sorryadjective, in the sense "feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for regretful.
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Regretful over mistakes she had made.
The true synonym
sorry
Same sentence, swapped: Sorry over mistakes she had made.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- blighted
- foiled
- thwarted
Where regretful turns up in the game
regretful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where regretful is the trap
- wistfuladjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is pensive, in the sense "showing pensive sadness", and regretful is on the board beside it.
Play regretful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so regretful reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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regretful carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at High Camp and widens alphabetically.
One vocabulary, two jobs
regretful is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.