Meanings
comparative more remorseful · superlative most remorseful
- Feeling or filled with remorse.
He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
- Expressing or caused by remorse.
There was a remorseful look on her face.
1 more example
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.
1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivefeeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian разкаян, жалостив
- разкаян (razkajan)feeling or filled with remorse
- жалостив (žalostiv)expressing or caused by remorse
- съжалителен (săžalitelen)expressing or caused by remorse
Finnish katuva, katuvainen
- katuvafeeling or filled with remorse
- katuvainenfeeling or filled with remorse
- katuvaexpressing or caused by remorse
- katuvainenexpressing or caused by remorse
German reuevoll, reumütig
- reuevollfeeling or filled with remorse
- reumütigfeeling or filled with remorse
- reuigfeeling or filled with remorse
- reuevollexpressing or caused by remorse
- reumütigexpressing or caused by remorse
- reuigexpressing or caused by remorse
Irish aiféalach
- aiféalachfeeling or filled with remorse
Māori kaniawhea
- kaniawheafeeling or filled with remorse
Spanish arrepentido, remordiente
- arrepentidofeeling or filled with remorse
- remordientefeeling or filled with remorse
- compungidoexpressing or caused by remorse
Swedish ångerfull, ångerfull
- ångerfullfeeling or filled with remorse
- ångerfullexpressing or caused by remorse
Cite this entry
remorseful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remorseful
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