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remorseful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective remorseful has 1 sense
- remorseful(s = adj.all) contrite, rueful, ruthful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
remorseful, a.
- Full of remorse. [1913 Webster]"The full tide of remorseful passion had abated." [1913 Webster]
- Compassionate; feeling tenderly. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Exciting pity; pitiable. Chapman. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
remorseful
anxious, apologetic, ashamed, bad, bitter, compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contrite, embarrassed, full of remorse, guilty, humbled, humiliated, mortified, penitent, penitential, regretful, repentant, repining, rueful, self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy about, wistful, woeful
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