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remorseful

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Main Entry: remorseful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: guilty, ashamed

Synonyms:

apologetic, attritional, chastened, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, guilt-ridden, mournful, penitent, penitential, regretful, repentant, rueful, sad, self-reproachful, sorrowful, sorry

Antonyms:

callous, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, unashamed, unmerciful
Main Entry: apologetic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: expressing remorse, regret

Synonyms:

atoning, attritional, compunctious, conciliatory, contrite, expiatory, explanatory, on one's knees, penitent, penitential, propitiatory, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, self-effacing, self-incriminating, sorry, supplicating

Antonyms:

defiant, defying
Main Entry: bad
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sorry

Synonyms:

apologetic, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, down, downcast, downhearted, guilty, low, regretful, remorseful, sad, upset, woebegone
Notes: badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state
Main Entry: contrite
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: regretful

Synonyms:

apologetic, attritional, chastened, compunctious, conscience-stricken, humble, penitent, penitential, remorseful, repentant, sorrowful, sorry

Antonyms:

hurtful, indifferent, mean, unrepentant
Main Entry: guilty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blameworthy; found at fault

Synonyms:

accusable, caught, censurable, censured, chargeable, condemned, conscience-stricken, contrite, convictable, convicted, criminal, culpable, damned, delinquent, depraved, doomed, erring, evil, felonious, hangdog, impeached, in error, in the wrong, incriminated, iniquitous, judged, liable, licentious, offending, on one's head, out of line, proscribed, regretful, remorseful, reprehensible, responsible, rueful, sentenced, sheepish, sinful, sorry, wicked, wrong

Antonyms:

guiltless, innocent, moral, right, sinless, truthful
Main Entry: penitent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shamed, sorrowful

Synonyms:

abject, apologetic, atoning, attritional, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorry

Antonyms:

happy, unashamed, unrepentent
Main Entry: regretful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sad, sorry

Synonyms:

apologetic, ashamed, attritional, compunctious, contrite, disappointed, mournful, penitent, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorrowful

Antonyms:

content, happy, not guilty, satisfied
Main Entry: rueful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: regretful

Synonyms:

apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, mournful, remorseful, repentant, sad, sorrowful, sorry
Main Entry: repentant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: penitent

Synonyms:

apologetic, atoning, compunctious, contrite, regretful, remorseful, sorry
Main Entry: repentant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sorry

Synonyms:

contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, rueful

Antonyms:

impenitent, unrepentant
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