remorse

Speech parts

1. remorse - Noun

2. remorse - Verb

Meaning

The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.

Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

compunction self-reproach rue penitence grief regret repentance anguish contrition ruth blues heartache melancholia pain anxiety
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Antonyms

bliss beatitude advantage belief faith confidence
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Hypernyms

rue regret sorrow ruefulness

Hyponyms

penitence guilt repentance penance guilty conscience guilt trip

Phrases with the word

buyer's remorse feel remorse about feel remorse feel remorse for expression of remorse expressing remorse

Examples

Remorse is the pain of sin. Theodore Parker

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. William Cullen Bryant

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Ogden Nash

Remorse is worse than a beating. Greek Proverb

Youth is a folly; maturity, a struggle; old age a remorse. Mexican Proverb

Remorse is lust's dessert. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

remordency remorin remorphize remorsed remorseful remorsefully