Compunctious
41apologetic — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, conscience stricken, contrite, defense, excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble, humbled,… …
42penitent — Synonyms and related words: Magdalen, abject, apologetic, compunctious, confessor, conscience stricken, contrite, grief stricken, humbled, melted, penitential, penitentiary, prodigal returned, prodigal son, regretful, remorseful, repentant,… …
43penitential — Synonyms and related words: abject, amendatory, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory,… …
44remorseful — Synonyms and related words: anxious, apologetic, ashamed, bad, bitter, compunctious, conscience smitten, conscience stricken, contrite, embarrassed, full of remorse, guilty, humbled, humiliated, mortified, penitent, penitential, regretful,… …
45repentant — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed, expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted, penitent, penitential …
46sorry — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologetic, ashamed, bad, base, base minded, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, compunctious, conscience smitten, conscience stricken, contemptible, contrite, crummy,… …
47apologetic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. contrite, remorseful, sorry, penitent, repentant, regretful, supplicating, retracting, self effacing, self reproachful, self condemnatory, self incriminating, explanatory, extenuating, atoning, expiatory, rueful,… …
48guilty — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Convicted] Syn. found guilty, guilty as charged, condemned, sentenced, criminal, censured, impeached, incriminated, indicted, liable, condemned, proscribed, having violated law, weighed and found wanting, judged, damned …
49regretful — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. penitent, remorseful, conscience stricken, frustrated; see apologetic , sorry 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. sorry, contrite, ashamed, apologetic, conscience stricken, guilty, penitent, self reproachful, *sadder… …
50remorseful — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. contrite, penitent, repentant; see sorry 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Feeling or expressing regret for one s sins or misdeeds: compunctious, contrite, penitent, penitential, regretful, repentant, sorry. See… …
