Remorseful
[rɪ'mɔːsf(ʊ)l] or [rɪ'mɔrsfəl]
Definition
(a.) Full of remorse.
(a.) Compassionate; feeling tenderly.
(a.) Exciting pity; pitiable.
Checker: Roderick
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Compunctious, contrite, repentant, penitent, sorrowful.
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Examples
- After that, her crying became remorseful, and she got up and put her arms round her sister. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was too penitent, too remorseful. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I ought to have gone, said Jo, taking her sister in her arms as she sat down in her mother's big chair, with a remorseful face. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I, for my part, was thoughtful too; for, how best to check this growing change in Joe was a great perplexity to my remorseful thoughts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He looked at her with a real sentiment of remorseful tenderness and pity. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But Yeobright was too deeply absorbed in the ramblings incidental to his remorseful state to notice her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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