remorseful
18
4.6
- adjective
- /rɪˈmɔrsfəl/
:
arrepentido
- She felt remorseful after realizing the hurt her words had caused.
Narcissistic people can also feel guilty, ashamed, and remorseful when they do bad things or get caught.
- Narcissistic people can also feel guilty, ashamed, and remorseful when they do bad things or get caught.
- If I drank, sometimes I would get like really like lit and remorseful.
- And I don't, you know, like if she genuinely, it was such an accident and she's so like, remorseful, then like for you to be like trying to break up her marriage.
Examples
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And why is he feeling so remorseful now? Because he got caught and kicked out of the military?
Blog text (19) -
The question remains: with extensive therapy and if he is truly remorseful, should his wife take him back?
Blog text (19) -
Feel guilty or remorseful following a spending episode.
Academic text (2011) -
"As he turned into the dining room, she called out, her voice suddenly remorseful, "Just rock her for five minutes."
Fiction book (1990) -
The fact that the driver appeared to be genuinely remorseful likely helped.
Blog text (10) -
I'm deeply remorseful for the choices I made, but I will accept whatever consequences there might be.
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My ex has apologized and has been very remorseful even though it was so long ago.
Blog text (30) -
Michael has been a model prisoner, and he has done everything that you have asked, and he's remorseful.
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Dipper threw Julian a last remorseful look.
Fiction book (1993) -
I spoke with Jamal earlier today and naturally he's feeling quite remorseful regarding his losing control.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling regret for something you did
793
1.4
Showing that you feel bad about doing something wrong
504
1.0
Feeling embarrassed and guilty about something you did or failed to do
28
3.7
Feeling sorry for something you did
13
8.1
Feeling very sorry for doing something wrong and wanting forgiveness
9
2.9
Feeling sorry for something you did or said
8
4.8
Feeling sorry about something you did and wanting to make it right
5
6.5
Feeling very sorry and upset because you did something wrong
5
7.8
Feeling sorry about something you did and showing it
1
9.9
Showing sorrow and regret for doing something wrong
Feeling very guilty about something you did
Showing that you are sorry for something
Antonyms
How Remorseful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word remorseful comes from the Latin parts re- 'again' and mordere 'to bite', so it imagines regret 'biting' you again and again. That's why to be remorseful is to feel deep, painful sorrow for something you have done.