Definition of regard

"regard" in the noun sense

1. respect, regard

usually preceded by `in') a detail or point

"it differs in that respect"

2. attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attention

paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people

"his attentiveness to her wishes"

"he spends without heed to the consequences"

3. regard, wish, compliments

usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare

"give him my kind regards"

"my best wishes"

4. gaze, regard

a long fixed look

"he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

5. esteem, regard, respect

the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded

"it is held in esteem"

"a man who has earned high regard"

6. regard, respect

a feeling of friendship and esteem

"she mistook his manly regard for love"

"he inspires respect"

7. respect, esteem, regard

an attitude of admiration or esteem

"she lost all respect for him"

"regard" in the verb sense

1. see, consider, reckon, view, regard

deem to be

"She views this quite differently from me"

"I consider her to be shallow"

"I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

2. regard, consider

look at attentively

3. involve, affect, regard

connect closely and often incriminatingly

"This new ruling affects your business"

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Quotations for regard

Hold friendship in regard. [ Stobaeus ]

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. [ Washington Irving ]

If you wish a coquette to regard you, cease to regard her.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [ Horace ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

In all things, but particularly in law, regard is to be had to equity. [ Law ]

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. [ Cato ]

In regard to virtue, each one finds certainty by consulting his own heart. [ Renan ]

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. [ Cicero ]

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest? [ Waller ]

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. [ Pope ]

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. [ J. M. Barrie ]

The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions. [ Not traceable ]

Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. [ Seneca ]

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

But all his family and the entire neighbourhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside. [ Horace ]

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. [ Charles Buxton ]

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. [ Hosea Ballou ]

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. [ Daniel Webster ]

I regard them, as Charles the Emperor did Florence, that they are too pleasant to be looked upon except on holidays. [ Izaak Walton ]

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. [ Alexander Wilson ]

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. [ Hazlitt ]

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. [ Pascal ]

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. [ Thoreau ]

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. [ Boiste ]

There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern, - the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]

Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion; but regard is not a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. [ Tupper ]

You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable. [ Plato ]

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it. [ Burke ]

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. [ Swift ]

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty. [ Shenstone ]

Various and very absurd notions prevailed among the ancients in regard to the dew; by some it was supposed to descend from the stars, and to be possessed of wonderful virtues. [ Barnard ]

A young woman should regard that propriety of attire which insures the strictest neatness, and modestly conform to those unobjectionable points which are the freaks of custom. [ C. Butler ]

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]

Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To know by rote is no knowledge: it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it. [ Montaigne ]

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]

Friendship may outlive love and its passions; for instances have not unfrequently occurred, in which parties who have ceased to regard each other as lovers, have been found necessary as friends and confidential advisers. [ Mme. de Pompadour ]

What is commonly called friendship is no more than a partnership, a reciprocal regard for one another's interests, and an exchange of good offices; in a word, mere traffic, wherein self-love always proposes to be a gainer. [ Rochefoucauld ]

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. [ Swift ]

Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar; the case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. [ Shenstone ]

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. [ G. A. Sala ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

regard in Scrabble®

The word regard is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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regard in Words With Friends™

The word regard is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of regard

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6 letter words in regard (Anagrams) (3 words)

Word Growth involving regard

Shorter words in regard

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Longer words containing regard

disregard disregardable

disregard disregardably

disregard disregardance

disregard disregardant

disregard disregarded

disregard disregarder disregarders

disregard disregardful disregardfully

disregard disregardful disregardfulness

disregard disregarding

disregard disregardless disregardlessness

disregard disregards

regarded disregarded

regarded unregarded

regarder disregarder disregarders

regarder regarders disregarders

regardful disregardful disregardfully

regardful disregardful disregardfulness

regarding disregarding

regardless disregardless disregardlessness

regardless irregardless

regardless regardlessly

regards disregards

selfregard