Dictionary

remorseful en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)sfʊl/

Etymology

From remorse + -ful.

Meanings

1. (of a person) Feeling or filled with remorse.
   • He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
2. Expressing or caused by remorse.
   • Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings. 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
   • There was a remorseful look on her face.

Forms

Antonyms

impenitent · obdurate · unreformed · remorseless · recidivistic · unbowed · unapologetic · unremorseful · uncontrite · unrepentant

Hypernyms

regretful

Relateds

remorse · remorsefully · remorsefulness

Synonyms

guilt-ridden · repentant · apologetic · contrite · remorseful · regretful · penitent

Translations (20)

fi katuva (expressing or caused by remorse) · fi katuvainen (feeling or filled with remorse) · es arrepentido (feeling or filled with remorse) · fi katuva (feeling or filled with remorse) · fi katuvainen (expressing or caused by remorse) · ga aiféalach (feeling or filled with remorse) · sv ångerfull (feeling or filled with remorse) · de reumütig (expressing or caused by remorse) · de reuevoll (feeling or filled with remorse) · de reuig (expressing or caused by remorse) · es compungido (expressing or caused by remorse) · mi kaniawhea (feeling or filled with remorse) · de reuevoll (expressing or caused by remorse) · bg разкаян (feeling or filled with remorse) · bg съжалителен (expressing or caused by remorse) · es remordiente (feeling or filled with remorse) · bg жалостив (expressing or caused by remorse) · de reumütig (feeling or filled with remorse) · de reuig (feeling or filled with remorse) · sv ångerfull (expressing or caused by remorse)