remorseful

English

Etymology

From remorse +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)sfʊl/

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Adjective

remorseful (comparative more remorseful, superlative most remorseful)

1. (of a person) Feeling or filled with remorse.

   He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.

2. Expressing or caused by remorse.

   There was a remorseful look on her face.

   • 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:

     Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

Synonyms

• penitent
• apologetic
• regretful
• Thesaurus:remorseful

Antonyms

• remorseless
• unremorseful
• unrepentant

Related terms

• remorse
• remorsefully
• remorsefulness

Translations

feeling or filled with remorse

• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: разкаян (bg) (razkajan)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: katuva (fi), katuvainen
• German: reuevoll, reumütig (de), reuig (de)
• Irish: aiféalach
• Maori: kaniawhea
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
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• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: arrepentido (es), remordiente
• Swedish: ångerfull (sv)

expressing or caused by remorse

• Bulgarian: жалостив (bg) (žalostiv), съжалителен (bg) (sǎžalitelen)
• Finnish: katuva (fi), katuvainen
• German: reuevoll, reumütig (de), reuig (de)
• Spanish: compungido (es)
• Swedish: ångerfull (sv)

References

• “remorseful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “remorseful”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "remorseful" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press 2007.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.