unregrettableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈɡrɛtəbl/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈɡrɛdəb(ə)l/ Not deserving of or giving rise to regret.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adjective]
acceptablea1382
acceptedc1384
admittable?1406
approvablec1449
eligiblea1500
plausible1541
admissable1587
avowable1602
applausive1605
admissible1611
vendible1642
plaudablea1650
unexceptionable1664
favourable1666
unobnoxious1678
unexceptioned1704
right1748
unregrettable1748
undisgusting1755
unexceptional1775
all right1868
unarraignable1886
1748 D. Mallet Congratulatory Let. to Selim 31 Was not the great Man himself..all-sufficient to repair the trifling Gap of such an unregrettable Ministry as this Libeller represents it?
1768 Woman of Honor II. 120 A very unregrettable sacrifice of..an object of vanity.
1875 Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 333 That inherent weakness of both plot and dialogue, which have consigned it, with its fellows, to unregrettable oblivion.
1917 S. B. Stanton Hidden Happiness 51 It is the function of to-day to make the past unregrettable.
2003 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 18 Apr. 26 In the Stoic reframing and renaming of the world, all loss becomes change, impersonal and consequently unregrettable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1748