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remorseful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of remorseful

feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done

was remorseful about all the trouble that he had caused in the family

Synonyms of remorseful

apologetic, compunctious, contrite, penitent, regretful, repentant, rueful, sorry

Words Related to remorseful

ashamed, shamefaced, sheepish

dolorous, grieving, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, wailing, weeping, woeful

Near Antonyms of remorseful

compassionless, cruel, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unmerciful

shameless, unashamed

Antonyms of remorseful

impenitent, remorseless, unapologetic, unrepentant

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