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# regretfully

«regretfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a sorry way, feeling sad about a mistake or a loss** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (regretfully)

### meaning for a pupil

In a sorry way, feeling sad about a mistake or a loss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/regretfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character admits they cannot do something or let something go, with sorrow: «he said regretfully»

### examples

- "I cannot come to the party," she said regretfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/regretfully/#x1)
- He regretfully gave back the borrowed book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/regretfully/#x2)
- The fox watched the grapes fall away regretfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/regretfully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «regretfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/regretfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.