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- DictionaryRe·morse·ful/rəˈmôrsf(ə)l/
adjective
- 1. filled with remorse; sorry: "the defendant was remorseful for what he had done"
: motivated or marked by remorse. remorsefully. ri-ˈmȯrs-fə-lē. adverb. remorsefulness noun. Synonyms. apologetic. compunctious. contrite. penitent. regretful. repentant. rueful. sorry. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of remorseful in a Sentence. was remorseful about all the trouble that he had caused in the family.
adjective. formal uk / rɪˈmɔː.sf ə l / us / rɪˈmɔːr.sf ə l / Add to word list. feeling sad and guilty. Synonyms. contrite formal. regretful. rueful literary. sorry (EXPRESSING REGRET) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Sadness and regret. aw. be/weigh on your conscience idiom. bitter. black dog. breastbeating. cry. doom and gloom.
adjective. formal us / rɪˈmɔːr.sf ə l / uk / rɪˈmɔː.sf ə l / Add to word list. feeling sad and guilty. Synonyms. contrite formal. regretful. rueful literary. sorry (EXPRESSING REGRET) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Sadness and regret. aw. be/weigh on your conscience idiom. bitter. black dog. breastbeating. cry. doom and gloom.
Remorseful definition: full of remorse. . See examples of REMORSEFUL used in a sentence.
If you are remorseful, you feel very guilty and sorry about something wrong that you have done.
The adjective remorseful is good for describing someone who is really, really sorry — like a teenager who borrows his parents' car without asking and drives it into a tree. Someone who feels remorseful has usually done something that he or she now feels guilty about.
a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done: He felt no remorse for the murders he had committed. After the argument, she was filled with remorse. Synonyms. compunction formal. regret. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Sadness and regret. aw. be/weigh on your conscience idiom. bitter. black dog. breastbeating. cry.
a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died.
remorseful (for/about something) feeling extremely sorry for something wrong or bad that you have done. He seemed genuinely remorseful for what he had done.
penitence, repentance, contrition, compunction, remorse mean regret for sin or wrongdoing. penitence implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds. repentance adds the implication of a resolve to change. contrition stresses the sorrowful regret that constitutes true penitence.
