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remorseful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of remorseful

feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done
  • Don 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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