An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
REGRETFUL
regretful, sorry, bad
(adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; “felt regretful over his vanished youth”; “regretful over mistakes she had made”; “he felt bad about breaking the vase”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
regretful (comparative more regretful, superlative most regretful)
Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.
Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
Synonyms
• (full of regret): repining, rueful, sorrowful
Source: Wiktionary
Re*gret"ful (-fl), a.
Definition: Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.
– Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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