Entry Word: remorseful

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done <was remorseful about all the trouble that he had caused in the family> — see contrite 1
2 suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing <sent us a remorseful letter of apology> <a remorseful criminal for whom there is a real possibility of rehabilitation> — see guilty 2