Compunctious
61contrite — adj penitent, penitential, repentant, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; remorseful, compunctious, regretful, regretting, sorry, sorrowful, troubled, disturbed; conscience stricken, guilt ridden, self accusing, self reproachful; chastened, humbled …
62deprecatory — adj 1. censuring, reproachful, op probious, impeaching, slating, inveighing, reproving, recriminating, reprehensive, reprobative, reprobating; denunciatory, denunciating, railing, cursing, condemnatory, maledictory, anathematizing; berating,… …
63guilty — adj 1. culpable, criminal, unlawful, illegal, illicit, illegitimate, lawless; reprehensible, condemna ble, reproachable, blameworthy, blamable, at fault, censurable; felonious, wrong, amiss, penitentiary, transgressive; condemned, convicted,… …
64humble — adj 1. modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unpresuming, free from pride, without arrogance, unostentatious, reserved, restrained. 2. meek, mild, submissive, obsequious, servile, subservient, subsidiary, slavish, broken in spirit, unambitious,… …
65penitent — adj 1. repentant, contrite, compunctious, abject, humble, humbled, apologetic, sheepish; sorrowful, sad, sorry, sorry for one s sins, remorseful, regretful, rueful, conscience stricken, in sackcloth and ashes; self reproaching, self accusing,… …
66regretful — adj 1. sorrowful, rueful, contrite, sorry, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, remorseful, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, humbled, abject, sheepish; self condemning, self punishing, self …
67remorseful — adj sorry, sorrowful, regretful, rueful, contrite, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, guilt ridden, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, penitential, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; humbled …
68repentant — adj penitent, penitential, contrite, in sackcloth and ashes, atoning; remorseful, compunctious, regretful, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, sorry, sorrowful, rueful, mournful, doleful, troubled, disturbed; conscience stricken, conscience… …
69sackcloth — n 1. sacking, coarse cloth, stout woven material, burlap, gunny, hopsacking, homespun, fustian, linsey woolsey. 2. in sackcloth and ashes contrite, sorrowful, repentant, penitent, penitential, atoning; sorry, sorrowful, remorseful, compunctious,… …
70sorry — adj 1. remorseful, regretful, rueful, contrite, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, guilt ridden, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, pentitential, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; humbled,… …
