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English
Etymology
From remorse + -ful.
Pronunciation
Adjective
remorseful (comparative more remorseful, superlative most remorseful)
- (of a person) 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.
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
Antonyms
Translations
feeling or filled with remorse
expressing or caused by remorse
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.