| Main Entry: | contrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
Synonyms: |
attrition, compunction, contriteness, humiliation, penance, penitence, penitency, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, self-reproach, sorrow |
Antonyms: |
hurtfulness, indifference, meanness |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
innocence |
| Main Entry: | penitence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shame, sorrow |
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 |
Antonyms: |
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 |
Antonyms: |
contentedness, happiness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
Synonyms: |
anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contriteness, contrition, grief, guilt, pangs of conscience, penance, penitence, penitency, pity, regret, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, self-reproach, shame, sorrow |
Antonyms: |
good conscience, happiness, remorselessness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | repentance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling bad for past action |
Synonyms: |
attrition, compunction, conscience, contriteness, contrition, grief, guilt, penitence, penitency, regret, remorse, rue, ruth, self-reproach, sorriness, sorrow |
Antonyms: |
happiness |
| Main Entry: | shame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, embarrassment |
Synonyms: |
abashment, bad conscience, blot, chagrin, compunction, confusion, contempt, contrition, degradation, derision, discomposure, discredit, disesteem, dishonor, disrepute, guilt, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, irritation, loss of face, mortification, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pang, pudency, remorse, reproach, scandal, self-disgust, self-reproach, self-reproof, shamefacedness, skeleton in the cupboard, smear, stigma, stupefaction, treachery |
Antonyms: |
honor, pride, respect |
| 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 |
Synonyms: |
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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Adjectives: |
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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