remorseful

From remorse +‎ -ful.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)sfʊl/

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remorseful (comparative more remorseful, superlative most remorseful)

1. (of a person) Feeling or filled with remorse.

   He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.

2. 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.

• penitent
• apologetic
• regretful
• Thesaurus:remorseful

• remorseless
• unremorseful
• unrepentant

• remorse
• remorsefully
• remorsefulness

• “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.