| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
Synonyms: |
answerability, blameworthiness, contrition, crime, criminality, culpability, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, peccability, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, self-condemnation, self-reproach, shame, sin, sinfulness, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong |
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innocence |
| Main Entry: | penitence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shame, sorrow |
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anguish, attrition, compunction, contriteness, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humbling, humiliation, penance, qualm, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, scruple, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
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shamelessness |
| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset over past action |
Synonyms: |
affliction, anguish, annoyance, apologies, apology, bitterness, care, compunction, concern, conscience, contrition, demur, disappointment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, lamentation, misgiving, nostalgia, pang, penitence, qualm, regretfulness, remorse, repentance, ruefulness, scruple, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-disgust, self-reproach, sorrow, uneasiness, woe, worry |
| Notes: | regret carries no explicit admission that one is responsible for an incident, while remorse implies a sense of guilty responsibility and a greater feeling of personal pain and anguish |
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contentedness, happiness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | penitency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penitence |
Synonyms: |
anguish, attrition, compunction, contriteness, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humbling, humiliation, penance, qualm, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, scruple, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
| Main Entry: | remorsefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penitence |
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anguish, attrition, compunction, contriteness, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humbling, humiliation, penance, penitency, qualm, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, scruple, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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black, abandoned, accursed, adulterine, apostate, atrocious, bad, base, blameworthy, censurable, compunctious, condemned, corrupt, criminal, criminogenic, culpable, deep in iniquity, degrading, demoniacal, demoralized, demoralizing, depraved, desertless, diabolic, diabolical, discreditable, disgraceful, disorderly, disreputable, dissolute, doli incapax, dolose, evil-disposed, evil-minded, exceptionable, facinorous, false, fedifragous, felonious, fiendlike, flagitious, flagrant, foul, frail, graceless, grave, gross, guilt-sick, guilty, heartless, heinous, hell-born, hellish, hit-and-run, hot, ill-conditioned, illaudable, illegal, immoral, imperfect, improper, in fault, in the wrong, in the wrong box, incarnate, incorrect, incorrigible, indecorous, indefensible, indiscreet, inequitable, inexcusable, inexpiable, infamous, infernal, infirm, iniquitous, irreclaimable, irremissible, lawless, lax, lost in iniquity, lost to virtue, mala fide, malevolent, mephistophelian, misbegotten, miscreated, mutinous, naughty, nefarious, nefast, obdurate, objectionable, of a deep dye, one-sided, partial, past praying for, peccable, peccaminous, penal, perfidious, piacular, poison-pen, profligate, recidivous, recreant, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scampish, scandalous, scurvy, seditious, shameful, sinful, sinister, sinning, steeped in iniquity, stygian, sunk in iniquity, supercilious, thelyphthoric, to blame, too bad, transgressive, treacherous, unallowable, uncommendable, unconscionable, unduteous, undutiful, unequal, unequitable, unfair, unfit, unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unpardonable, unprincipled, unrighteous, unseemly, unwarrantable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, virtueless, weak, wee-wow, weighed in the balance and found wanting, wicked, wired, worthless, wrong, wrongful
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| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
contrite, homesick, lamentable, languorous, much to be regretted, oikotropic, regretful, regrettable, regretted, regretting
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| Concept: | Regret. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
regret, repining; homesickness, nostalgia; maldu pays, maladie; lamentation; penitence., bitterness, heartburning., laudator temporis acti (discontent).
-verbs
regret, deplore; bewail (lament); repine, cast a longing lingering look behind; rue, rue the day; repent; infandum renovare dolorem., prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind; leave an aching void.
-adjectives
regretting; regretful; homesick., regretted; much to be regretted, regrettable; lamentable (bad).
-phrases
'tis pity, 'tis too true; "sig'd and look'd and sigh'd again" [Dryden].
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| Concept: | Guilt. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude (improbity); sinfulness (vice)., misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break [U.S.], capital crime, delictum., offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasanee, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony., enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name" [Macbeth]., corpus delicti.
-adjectives
guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.
-adverbs
in flagrante delicto; red-handed, in the very act.
-phrases
cui prodest scelus in fecit [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Horace]; "O would the deed were good!" [Richard II]; "responsibility prevents crimes" [Burke;] se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Juvenal]; "so many laws argues so many
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Antonyms: |
innocence |
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| Concept: | Penitence. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret., self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature., acknowledgement, confession (disclosure); apology; recantation; penance; resipiscence., awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool., penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, "a sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge].
-verbs
repent, be sorry for; be penitent; rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess, (disclose) [more]; humble oneself; beg pardon (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes, (do penance) [more]; learn by experience.
-adjectives
penitent; repenting; repentant, contrite; conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted., penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed; not hardened; unhardened.
-adverbs
mea culpa.
-phrases
peccavi; erubuit; salva res est [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin; "and wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].
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Antonyms: |
impenitence |
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