regret vs satisfaction
Definitions
verb
- express with regret
- decline formally or politely
- feel sad about the loss or absence of
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
noun
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
Examples
We deeply regret our misguided support and apologize for our previous email.
One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret.
Often he found her quietly weeping, but they were never tears of accusation; only tears of regret.
Definitions
noun
- (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation
- compensation for a wrong
- state of being gratified or satisfied
- the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation
- act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite
Examples
They have recognized that their business depends on world of mouth, and that world of mouth is based on customer satisfaction.
The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers.
Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like
