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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling bad for past action |
| Synonyms: | attrition, compunction, conscience, contriteness, contrition, grief, guilt, penitence, penitency, regret, remorse, rue, ruth, self-reproach, sorriness, sorrow |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
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| Main Entry: | attrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
| Synonyms: | contriteness, penance, penitence, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, penitency, pity, punctiliousness, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, second thoughts, shame, stab of conscience, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | contrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
| Synonyms: | attrition, compunction, contriteness, humiliation, penance, penitence, penitency, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, self-reproach, sorrow |
| Antonyms: | hurtfulness, indifference, meanness |
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
| Synonyms: | absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, expiation, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, purgation, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift, sorrow, suffering |
| Main Entry: | penitence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shame, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | anguish, attrition, compunction, contriteness, contrition, debasement, degradation, distress, grief, humbling, humiliation, penance, qualm, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, scruple, self-castigation, self-condemnation, self-flagellation, self-punishment, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | shamelessness |
| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset over past action |
| Synonyms: | affliction, anguish, annoyance, apologies, apology, bitterness, care, compunction, concern, conscience, contrition, demur, disappointment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, lamentation, misgiving, nostalgia, pang, penitence, qualm, regretfulness, remorse, repentance, ruefulness, scruple, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-disgust, self-reproach, sorrow, uneasiness, woe, worry |
| Notes: | regret carries no explicit admission that one is responsible for an incident, while remorse implies a sense of guilty responsibility and a greater feeling of personal pain and anguish |
| Antonyms: | contentedness, happiness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
| Synonyms: | anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contriteness, contrition, grief, guilt, pangs of conscience, penance, penitence, penitency, pity, regret, remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, self-reproach, shame, sorrow |
| Notes: | regret carries no explicit admission that one is responsible for an incident, while remorse implies a sense of guilty responsibility and a greater feeling of personal pain and anguish |
| Antonyms: | good conscience, happiness, remorselessness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news, big trouble, blow, blues, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, grieving, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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