remorse
Meanings
Plural: remorses
Noun
- a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
- A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
- Sorrow; pity; compassion.
Verb
- To experience remorse; to regret.
Origin / Etymology
First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“I torment, I vex”, literally “I bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“I bite”). More at remord.
Synonyms
agenbite, blueness, blues, bowels, commiseration, compassion, compunction, contrition, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, empathy, fellow feeling, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, loving-kindness, melancholia, melancholy, mercy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, penitence, pity, prosternation, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sadness, self-reproach, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness
Antonyms
apathy, irrepentance, nonrepentance, unremorsefulness, unrepentance
Scrabble Score: 9
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