penitent
penitent
adjectiveDefinition of PENITENT
feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done <a penitent gossip who had come to ask for forgiveness>
Related Words ashamed, shamefaced, sheepish; dolorous, grieving, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, wailing, weeping, woeful
Near Antonyms compassionless, cruel, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unmerciful; shameless, unashamed
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