Does "miss" work?

@alphabet Not quite. I feel like "miss" implies an emotional attachment. I wouldn't "miss" that monitor, just feel like I'd lost something that was hard to buy and now I had no monitor.

I should think you would be cross with yourself rather than sad!

Sorrow, regret, ruefulness ... all far too broad to be respectable ELU answers.

@EdwinAshworth I'm not quite certain "regret" works. You only regret an action it seems, not regret an object. I'm torn between "regret" and "miss", but as I said, neither quite captures the shade of meaning I'm looking for, which does exist in my native language but strangely not in English.

It'd be hard to find a single word covering all forms of financial loss.

My monitor and I are both broken up.

... but being a raffle prize, you have not lost the value of the monitor, only the raffle ticket.

I felt like I'd been robbed is often used very figuratively (you lost a friend, or something that doesn't easily translate into a monetary value). But it should suit OP's context, because robbery nearly always involves taking things of monetary, not sentimental value.

"I deeply bemoan the loss of this monitor" (other example : At the shareholder meeting to approve the deal, they were bemoaning the loss of their 10% discount card.)

@WeatherVane This isn't about me getting a monitor and selling it for later. The monitor isn't a literal investment. It's just expensive, that's all of it. Imagine you get something as a prize, which you could never buy by yourself, but then immediately lose it.

It’s not specific to financial loss, and it’s very Australian, but the term I would use colloquially in that situation would be “spewing” (or more accurately, “spewin’). It means to be very upset. (Of course, it has the normal meaning of “vomiting” too). As in: “I dropped the fancy monitor I just won. I’m spewin’.”

Does the word in your language refer to losing (or almost winning) something trivial that you could perfectly well live without, such as an expensive watch, say, or an all-expenses-paid vacation to a beautiful place? Or is it something you truly needed? If only you had won, you could pay off the thugs who keep threatening to break your thumbs?

@Tim Trivial? Maybe not, because we're talking about very expensive things. Frivolous or nonessential? Most of the time. The LCD monitor could be something you use for your graphic design work which is essential, or just to play some triple-A games which is nonessential. The point is that there should be no inherent emotional attachment to the thing. If you end up loving that monitor after a long period of continuous use, "miss" would suffice.

So the adjective describes an emotion of losing, or of coming close to possessing, something which, if it was needed for some practical purpose, could be fairly easily obtained, and if was not needed for any practical purpose would have no sentimental attachment whatsoever. And despite that, it falls under the general category of "sadness". Sounds paradoxical.

@Tim I guess "disappointment" would suit you better?

The sense of loss you're describing seems a tad pathological to me, a symptom of greed.

@Tim It's not pathologically a symptom of greed just because it's monetary. Not everybody has strong attachment to inanimate objects. I'm not asking you to diagnose people with this very common feeling.

@Tim think of it this way, the feeling of disappointment that would make you go "dang, that was a nice monitor." Does it sound pathological to you? Does it immediate imply greed in the speaker?

But you explicitly said there is no sentimental attachment, no real inconvenience, no real financial hardship, no sense that the item was beautifully fashioned, no yearning that the item might have brought them their dream. All it had was monetary value per se. Where is the "strong attachment" coming into play, except in regard to possession for the sake of possession?

What exactly do you think "sentimental" mean? All the things you've listed are indicative of attachment. Oh no it's my grandma's keepsake. Oh no I've had it since first grade. Oh no, I immediately fell in love with this beautifully fashioned object.

It might be mildly materialistic, for sure, but it could also be sporadic, not pathological.

Sentimental attachment to an object refers to its having a meaning for you that is unrelated to its function, if any, or its monetary value, such as the attachment we have for a keepsake.

So what's confusing you? That's what I meant. Why are you psychoanalyzing for potential pathological greed?

I said "a tad pathological" because your examples included "missing out" on something "of monetary value". Something you might have possessed that you did not need or that would not have made it possible for you to fulfill a longstanding dream. It was just something you could have possessed. But now you're emphasizing the cost of something you owned that was broken , and so I imagine there is some small financial hardship : not a person with "money to burn". Not Elon Musk feeling sad because he lost an $8 mechanical pencil he picked up at the airport shop to do a crossword puzzle.

Related (but not wanting a verb): What is the word or saying for when you pay money for something, but don't end up using it? And this question about throwing money away.

@Tim It doesn't have to be literal financial hardship. You don't need to literally live paycheck to paycheck to have this feeling. Elon musk may not care about a mechanical pencil, but he surely has to regret being forced to pay for an awful website more than it's worth. The feeling I'm talking about could be what musk feels about the money he senselessly burnt and has to make up for now.

@Vun-HughVaw As I said, some small financial hardship. A person might have money enough to live a comfortable life and still dislike wasting money because they have had to work to get it. A person might have to forego a night out with friends if they need to purchase another monitor.