Regretfully

Definition: Regretfully

Regretfully

Adverb

1. With regret (used in polite formulas); "I must regretfully decline your kind invitation".

Date "regretfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Crosswords: Regretfully

English words defined with "regretfully": Apologetical. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm representing Marlon Brando this evening, and he has asked me to tell you, in a very long speech, which I cannot share with you presently, because of time, but I will be glad to share with the press afterwards, that he very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award, and the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry (The 45th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Seok-hun Yun)
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Domain	Title
Music	Regretfully Yours (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Statues of women, if Lynch be right, should always be fully draped, one hand of the woman feeling regretfully her own hinder parts.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Bolivia	Regretfully, business practices in Bolivia in both the governmental and local business sectors can involve different sets of standards than are common in the United States and some that might be illegal or unethical under U.S. law. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Regretfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.17% of the time. "Regretfully" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.17%	119	29,501
Noun (proper)	0.83%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	120	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "regretfully": said-regretfully.
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Language		Translations for "regretfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		със съжаление, с разкаяние (repentantly), неохотно (grudgingly, half-heartedly, reluctantly, unwillingly). (various references)

Chinese		懊地. (various references)

German		mit bedauern, bedauernde (commiseratively, deploringly), bedauernd (apologetic, commiserative, deploring, regretful, regretting, regrettingly, sorry). (various references)

Hungarian		szánakozva (pityingly), sajnálkozva (pityingly). (various references)

Italian		con rincrescimento, a malincuore (grudgingly, unwillingly). (various references)

Korean		뉘우치 (regrettably). (various references)

Pig Latin		egretfullyray

Romanian		cu pãrere de rãu (penitently). (various references)

Russian		с сожалением (ruefully). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žalosno (pitiably, ruefully, sorrowfully). (various references)

Spanish		sentidamente, con pesar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "regretfully" (pronounced rigre"tfulē)
5	-t f u l ē	artfully, delightfully, fitfully, frightfully, gratefully, respectfully, rightfully, tactfully, tastefully, thoughtfully, wistfully.
4	-f u l ē	anencephaly, blissfully, carefully, cheerfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, forcefully, gainfully, gleefully, gracefully, helpfully, hopefully, joyfully, lawfully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, peacefully, pitifully, playfully, purposefully, ruefully, skillfully, successfully, tearfully, thankfully, truthfully, unlawfully, unsuccessfully, usefully, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully.
3	-u l ē	abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-l-l-r-r-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: regretful.
	-3 letters: grueller.
	-4 letters: ferrety, ferrule, fleetly, fueller, fullery, gleeful, grueler, gruyere, refuter.
	-5 letters: eyeful, feller, ferrel, ferret, ferule, fleury, flurry, fluter, flutey, freely, fueler, fuller, furler, gleety, greyer, gullet, gulley, lefter, refell, refelt, reflet, refuel, refuge, refute, reglet, reglue, regret, retell, telfer, teller, tuyere, ureter, yeller.
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