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contrite

Main Entry:
contrite [kuhn-trahyt, kon-trahyt]
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: ashamed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: regretting, remorseful
Synonyms: abashed, apologetic, bashful, blushing, chagrined, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, debased, demeaned, discomfited, disconcerted, distraught, distressed, embarrassed, flustered, guilty, hesitant, humble, humbled, humiliated, meek, mortified, muddled, penitent, regretful, reluctant, repentant, shamed, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, sorry, stammering, stuttering, submissive
Antonyms: bold, defiant, immodest, not sorry, shameless, unregretful, unremorseful, unself-conscious
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: guilty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blameworthy; found at fault
Synonyms: accusable, caught, censurable, censured, chargeable, condemned, conscience-stricken, contrite, convictable, convicted, criminal, culpable, damned, delinquent, depraved, doomed, erring, evil, felonious, hangdog, impeached, in error, in the wrong, incriminated, iniquitous, judged, liable, licentious, offending, on one's head, out of line, proscribed, regretful, remorseful, reprehensible, responsible, rueful, sentenced, sheepish, sinful, sorry, wicked, wrong
Antonyms: guiltless, innocent, moral, right, sinless, truthful
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: 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: sorry
Synonyms: contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, rueful
Antonyms: impenitent, unrepentant
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