contrite

contrite

adjective

Definition of CONTRITE

feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done <being contrite is not enough to spare you an arrest if you're caught shoplifting>

Synonyms apologetic, compunctious, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorry

Related Words ashamed, shamefaced, sheepish; dolorous, grieving, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, wailing, weeping, woeful

Near Antonyms compassionless, cruel, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unmerciful; shameless, unashamed

Antonyms impenitent, remorseless, unapologetic, unrepentant