Regrets meaning : 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. Dislike; aversion. 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. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing). To miss; to feel the loss or absence of.