2. miss, be homesick, long for, want back; feel the loss of, sadly miss, sorely regret; want, desiderate, lack, need; yearn for, pine for, wish for. -n. 3. remorse, sorrow, sorriness; regretfulness, remorsefulness, contrition, contriteness, shamefulness, shame; lamentation, rue, grief, mournfulness, woe, dole; soul-searching, self-analysis, self-condemnation, self-punishment, self-reproach, self-debasement, self-accusation; discontent, inquietude, disquietude; qualms, pangs, pangs of conscience, twinge of conscience, voice of conscience; disappointment, bitterness, frustration, disillusionment, disillusion, second thoughts; anxiety, worry; wistfulness, nostalgia, homesickness.

regretful, adj. 1. sorrowful, rueful, contrite, sorry, compunctious; conscience-stricken, conscience-smitten, remorseful, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, humbled, abject, sheepish; self-condemning, self-punishing, self-reproachful, self-accusing, self-debasing; ashamed, shameful, shamefaced, Si. bummed out.
2. disgruntled, disappointed, dissatisfied, malcontent; sad, disillusioned, sadder but wiser, bitter; thwarted, balked, foiled, baffled; wistful, nostalgic, homesick.

regrettable, adj. deplorable, lamentable, doleful, woeful, sad; unfortunate, unlucky, hapless, pitiable, pitiful; distressful, disheartening, discouraging, depressing; awful, terrible, saddening, moving, affecting; much to be regretted, greatly lamented, too bad, a shame.

regular, adj. 1. usual, normal, natural, commonplace, matter-of-fact; customary, wonted, accustomed, habitual, consuetudinal; conventional, typical, ordinary, archetypal; stock, set, regulation, standard; household, traditional, familiar; universal, popular, current, average, everyday; widespread, prevalent, obtaining, prevailing, predominating.
2. symmetrical, even, uniform, level, orderly; smooth, flat, plane; aligned, balanced, straight, plumb.
3. periodic, fixed, cyclic, seasonal; habitual, recurrent, recurring, repetitive, daily, quotidian; established, prescriptive, accepted, set; frequent, persistent, constant, steadfast; chronic, confirmed, inveterate; incorrigible, fast, deep-rooted.
4. rhythmical, rhythmic, steady, repeated, continual; constant, unchanging, unchanged, unvarying, unvaried; uninterrupted, unintermitting, incessant, ceaseless, unceasing, unremitting; pulsating, vibrating, staccato, machine-gun, automatic.
5. methodical, systematic, controlled, regulated, well-regulated, well-ordered, predictable; orderly, neat, shipshape, tidy; harmonious, businesslike, routine, Fogglike.
6. Informal, real, genuine, authentic, bona fide, true, right, veritable.
7. Informal, utter, thorough, thoroughgoing, positive, decided; downright, out and out, definitive, outright; perfect, consummate, absolute, unmitigated, unqualified. -n. 8. habitual customer, client, patron, patroniz-er.
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regulars Sports, starters, first string, first team, varsity.

regularity, n. 1. uniformity, constancy, consistency, order; rhythm, rhythmicity, cadence, even tenor, even pace, even keel; invariability, sameness, evenness, agreement, unity, unison; harmony, concord, concin-nity, orderliness, continuity.