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apologetic
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing remorse, regret |
| Synonyms: | atoning, attritional, compunctious, conciliatory, contrite, expiatory, explanatory, on one's knees, penitent, penitential, propitiatory, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, self-effacing, self-incriminating, sorry, supplicating |
| Antonyms: | defiant, defying |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sorry |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, down, downcast, downhearted, guilty, low, regretful, remorseful, sad, upset, woebegone |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Main Entry: | contrite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, attritional, chastened, compunctious, conscience-stricken, humble, penitent, penitential, remorseful, repentant, sorrowful, sorry |
| Antonyms: | hurtful, indifferent, mean, unrepentant |
| Main Entry: | penitent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shamed, sorrowful |
| Synonyms: | abject, apologetic, atoning, attritional, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorry |
| Antonyms: | happy, unashamed, unrepentent |
| Main Entry: | regretful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, sorry |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, ashamed, attritional, compunctious, contrite, disappointed, mournful, penitent, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorrowful |
| Notes: | a person is regretful; a situation may be regrettable |
| Antonyms: | content, happy, not guilty, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | remorseful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guilty, ashamed |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, attritional, chastened, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, guilt-ridden, mournful, penitent, penitential, regretful, repentant, rueful, sad, self-reproachful, sorrowful, sorry |
| Antonyms: | callous, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, unashamed, unmerciful |
| Main Entry: | rueful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, mournful, remorseful, repentant, sad, sorrowful, sorry |
| Main Entry: | sorry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remorseful, regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, attritional, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, guilt-ridden, melted, penitent, penitential, repentant, self-accusing, self-condemnatory, self-reproachful, shamefaced, softened, touched |
| Antonyms: | glad, happy, unremorseful, unsorry |
| Main Entry: | repentant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penitent |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, atoning, compunctious, contrite, regretful, remorseful, sorry |
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