Exact Match:
- guilt
- remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offence
- the state of having committed an offense
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- burden,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- chargeability,
- complicity,
- criminality,
- dirty hands,
- fault,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- implication,
- inculpation,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- involvement,
- onus,
- peccancy,
- red-handedness,
- reprehensibility,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness
- anxiety,
- apologies,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bitterness,
- compunction,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- embarrassment,
- grief,
- guilt,
- guilty conscience,
- humiliation,
- mortification,
- pangs of conscience,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitently,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruefulness,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- wistfulness,
- woe
- regret
collapse - be sorry; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard"
- decline formally or politely; "I regret I can't come to the party"
- feel sad about the loss or absence of related words >
- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- affliction,
- anguish,
- apologies,
- apology,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- be sorry for,
- bemoan,
- bewail,
- bitterness,
- breast-beating,
- care,
- compunction,
- confession,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- demur,
- deplore,
- deprecate,
- disappointment,
- disapprove,
- dole,
- dolor,
- excuse,
- feel sorry for,
- grief,
- grieve,
- guilt,
- heartache,
- heartbreak,
- lament,
- mea culpa,
- mourn,
- mournfulness,
- pangs of conscience,
- penitence,
- qualm,
- refusal,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repent,
- repentance,
- repine,
- repining,
- rue,
- rue the day,
- ruefulness,
- sadness,
- scruple,
- second thoughts,
- self-condemnation,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- weep over,
- wistfulness,
- woe
- pang
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- a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"
- a sharp spasm of pain
- a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" related words >
- ache,
- aching,
- acute pain,
- anguish,
- bite,
- blow,
- boring pain,
- charley horse,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- cramp,
- cramps,
- crick,
- cut,
- darting pain,
- discomfort,
- distress,
- dolor,
- fulgurant pain,
- girdle pain,
- gnawing,
- grief,
- griping,
- guilt,
- hesitation,
- hitch,
- hurt,
- injury,
- jumping pain,
- kink,
- lancinating pain,
- lesion,
- malaise,
- misery,
- misgiving,
- mortification,
- nasty blow,
- nip,
- pain,
- paroxysm,
- passion,
- pinch,
- prick,
- qualm,
- regret,
- remorse,
- scruple,
- seizure,
- self-reproach,
- sharp pain,
- shock,
- shoot,
- shooting,
- shooting pain,
- sore,
- sore spot,
- spasm,
- stab,
- stabbing pain,
- stitch,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- stroke,
- suffering,
- tender spot,
- thrill,
- throes,
- tormen,
- tweak,
- twinge,
- twitch,
- wound,
- wrench
- responsibility
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- a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility" related words >
- accountability,
- accountableness,
- accounting for,
- action,
- agency,
- agentship,
- amenability,
- answerability,
- answerableness,
- application,
- arrogation,
- ascription,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- attachment,
- attribution,
- auspices,
- authority,
- authorization,
- blame,
- bossing,
- brevet,
- burden,
- care,
- charge,
- chargeability,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commitment,
- conduct,
- connection with,
- consignment,
- credit,
- culpability,
- cure,
- dedication to duty,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- dependability,
- deputation,
- derivation from,
- devolution,
- devolvement,
- devotion to duty,
- direction,
- driving,
- duteousness,
- dutifulness,
- duty,
- embassy,
- empowerment,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- etiology,
- execution,
- executorship,
- exequatur,
- exercise,
- eye,
- factorship,
- faithworthiness,
- fault,
- full power,
- functioning,
- guilt,
- handling,
- honor,
- imputation,
- incorruptibility,
- incumbency,
- intendance,
- inviolability,
- job,
- jurisdiction,
- legation,
- liability,
- license,
- lieutenancy,
- management,
- mandate,
- manipulation,
- mission,
- obligation,
- occupation,
- office,
- onus,
- operancy,
- operation,
- oversight,
- palaetiology,
- performance,
- performing,
- placement,
- plenipotentiary power,
- power of attorney,
- power to act,
- practice,
- procuration,
- proxy,
- purview,
- reference to,
- regency,
- regentship,
- reliability,
- responsibleness,
- role,
- running,
- saddling,
- sense of duty,
- sense of obligation,
- stability,
- steering,
- superintendence,
- supervision,
- sureness,
- surveillance,
- task,
- trust,
- trustability,
- trusteeship,
- trustiness,
- trustworthiness,
- unfalseness,
- unperfidiousness,
- untreacherousness,
- vicarious authority,
- warrant,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- absolute indication,
- allegiance,
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- aspersion,
- assigned task,
- attaint,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bend sinister,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- blot,
- blur,
- bounden duty,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- burden,
- burden of proof,
- burthen,
- business,
- call of duty,
- cargo,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- censure,
- champain,
- charge,
- chargeability,
- commitment,
- complicity,
- conclusive evidence,
- criminality,
- cross,
- culpability,
- cumbrance,
- damning evidence,
- deadweight,
- dedication,
- deference,
- demonstration,
- determination,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- difficulty,
- dirty hands,
- disadvantage,
- disparagement,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- embarrassment,
- encumbrance,
- establishment,
- ethics,
- fault,
- fealty,
- freight,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- homage,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imperative,
- implication,
- imposition,
- imputation,
- incontrovertible evidence,
- inconvenience,
- inculpation,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- indisputable evidence,
- involvement,
- ironclad proof,
- line of duty,
- load,
- loyalty,
- lumber,
- mark of Cain,
- millstone,
- mission,
- must,
- obligation,
- odium,
- onus probandi,
- ought,
- pack,
- peccancy,
- penalty,
- pillorying,
- place,
- point champain,
- proof,
- red-handedness,
- reflection,
- reprehensibility,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- respect,
- self-imposed duty,
- settlement,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smudge,
- smutch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- sure sign,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- task,
- tax,
- trouble,
- unmistakable sign,
- weight,
- white elephant
- complicity
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- guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense related words >
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- artifice,
- association,
- bipartisanship,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- burden,
- cabal,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- chargeability,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collusion,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complot,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- condominium,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contribution,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cotenancy,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- criminality,
- culpability,
- deep-laid plot,
- dirty hands,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- engagement,
- engineering,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- frame-up,
- game,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- harmony,
- having a part,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- implication,
- inculpation,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- intrigue,
- involvement,
- joining of forces,
- joint chairmanship,
- joint control,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- joint ownership,
- joint tenancy,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- mass action,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- onus,
- partaking,
- participation,
- partnership,
- peccancy,
- plot,
- plotting,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- reciprocity,
- red-handedness,
- reprehensibility,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- rigging,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- septet,
- sextet,
- sharing,
- solidarity,
- stratagem,
- suffrage,
- symbiosis,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- trick,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- underplot,
- united action,
- voting,
- web of intrigue,
- wire-pulling
- blame
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- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
- attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
- put or pin the blame on
- harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother" related words >
- account for,
- accountability,
- accounting for,
- accredit with,
- accrete to,
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accuse,
- accusing,
- acknowledge,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- anathema,
- anathematize,
- anathemize,
- animadvert on,
- answerability,
- application,
- apply to,
- arraign,
- arraignment,
- arrogation,
- ascribe to,
- ascription,
- assign to,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- attach to,
- attachment,
- attribute to,
- attribution,
- bill of particulars,
- blame for,
- blame on,
- bring home to,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- call to account,
- cast blame upon,
- cast reflection upon,
- castigation,
- censure,
- charge,
- charge on,
- charge to,
- complain against,
- complaint,
- condemn,
- condemnation,
- confess,
- connect with,
- connection with,
- count,
- credit,
- credit with,
- criticism,
- criticize,
- cry down,
- cry out against,
- cry out on,
- cry shame upon,
- culpability,
- damn,
- damnation,
- decrial,
- decry,
- delation,
- denounce,
- denouncement,
- denunciate,
- denunciation,
- derivation from,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- etiology,
- excoriation,
- fasten upon,
- father upon,
- fault,
- fix on,
- fix upon,
- flaying,
- fulminate against,
- fulmination,
- fustigation,
- guilt,
- hang on,
- hold against,
- honor,
- impeach,
- impeachment,
- implication,
- impugn,
- imputation,
- impute,
- impute to,
- incriminate,
- indict,
- indictment,
- information,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- inveigh against,
- knock,
- lawsuit,
- lay to,
- laying of charges,
- liability,
- objurgation,
- onus,
- palaetiology,
- pillorying,
- pin on,
- pinpoint,
- place upon,
- placement,
- plaint,
- point to,
- prosecution,
- rap,
- rebuke,
- recriminate,
- recrimination,
- refer to,
- reference to,
- reflect upon,
- reprehend,
- reprehension,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobate,
- reprobation,
- reproof,
- reprove,
- responsibility,
- saddle on,
- saddle with,
- saddling,
- scold,
- set down to,
- settle upon,
- shake up,
- skin,
- skinning alive,
- stricture,
- suit,
- taxing,
- true bill,
- unspoken accusation,
- veiled accusation
- shame
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- a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
- a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"
- surpass or beat by a wide margin
- cause to be ashamed
- compel through a sense of shame; "She shamed him into making amends" related words >
- abasement,
- abash,
- abashment,
- abomination,
- apologies,
- atrocity,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bad,
- besmirch,
- bitterness,
- blacken,
- bring down,
- bring into discredit,
- bring low,
- bring shame upon,
- bully,
- burning shame,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- calamity,
- calumniate,
- calumniation,
- cast reproach upon,
- catastrophe,
- chagrin,
- chasten,
- coerce,
- comedown,
- contempt,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- coyness,
- debase,
- debasement,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- defamation,
- defame,
- deflate,
- deflation,
- defrock,
- degradation,
- degrade,
- delicacy,
- denigration,
- deplume,
- derogation,
- descent,
- desecration,
- diffidence,
- dirty shame,
- disaster,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- discredit,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparagement,
- displume,
- disrepute,
- drive,
- dump,
- eclipse,
- elegance,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- error,
- evil,
- force,
- grief,
- guilt,
- hangdog look,
- humble,
- humbled pride,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- humility,
- ignominy,
- impute shame to,
- infamy,
- iniquity,
- knavery,
- let down,
- letdown,
- low-down dirty shame,
- modesty,
- mortification,
- mortify,
- obliquity,
- obloquy,
- odium,
- opprobrium,
- outclass,
- outdo,
- outrage,
- outshine,
- outstrip,
- overshadow,
- peccancy,
- pillory,
- pity,
- profanation,
- propriety,
- prudishness,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- push,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to shame,
- put-down,
- reflect discredit upon,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repining,
- reproach,
- reprobacy,
- respectability,
- sacrilege,
- scandal,
- scandalize,
- seemliness,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-diminishment,
- self-reproach,
- setdown,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- show up,
- shyness,
- sin,
- smear,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- stain,
- stigmatize,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- surpass,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- terrible thing,
- timidity,
- unfrock,
- vilification,
- villainy,
- violation,
- wistfulness,
- wrong
- involvement
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- a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen" related words >
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- application,
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- assault,
- association,
- assumption,
- attack,
- bias,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- burden,
- caring,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- censure,
- chargeability,
- chord,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- citation,
- cochairmanship,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- complicity,
- concentration,
- concern,
- condominium,
- containment,
- contemplation,
- contribution,
- convolution,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cotenancy,
- crabbedness,
- criminality,
- culpability,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- dirty hands,
- discrimination,
- echo,
- embracement,
- embroilment,
- empathy,
- encincture,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- enmeshment,
- entailment,
- entanglement,
- envelopment,
- environment,
- favoritism,
- fellow feeling,
- girding,
- girdling,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- having a part,
- identification,
- immersion,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- implication,
- impugnment,
- inclination,
- inclusion,
- incrimination,
- inculpation,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- inequality,
- intentness,
- interagency,
- intercession,
- interest,
- intermediation,
- interposition,
- intervention,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- joint chairmanship,
- joint control,
- joint ownership,
- joint tenancy,
- leaning,
- mediation,
- meditation,
- monomania,
- nepotism,
- obsession,
- one-sidedness,
- onus,
- partaking,
- parti pris,
- partiality,
- participation,
- partisanism,
- partisanship,
- partnership,
- pathos,
- peccancy,
- perplexity,
- preference,
- preferential treatment,
- preoccupation,
- presumption,
- profound thought,
- ramification,
- rapt attention,
- red-handedness,
- relating,
- reprehensibility,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- response,
- responsiveness,
- sharing,
- single-mindedness,
- stepping in,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submersion,
- subsumption,
- subtlety,
- suffrage,
- surrounding,
- sympathetic chord,
- sympathetic response,
- sympathy,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- undetachment,
- undispassionateness,
- unneutrality,
- vibes,
- vibrations,
- voting
- implication
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- an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
- a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"
- a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false related words >
- absorption,
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- affective meaning,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- arcane meaning,
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- arraignment,
- assault,
- association,
- assumption,
- attack,
- bearing,
- bill of particulars,
- blame,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- broad hint,
- burden,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- censure,
- charge,
- chargeability,
- citation,
- clue,
- coloration,
- coloring,
- complaint,
- complicity,
- conclusion,
- connection,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- count,
- criminality,
- cue,
- culpability,
- delation,
- denotation,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- dirty hands,
- drift,
- effect,
- embarrassment,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- entailment,
- entanglement,
- essence,
- extension,
- force,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- gist,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- grammatical meaning,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- hint,
- idea,
- impact,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- impeachment,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- impugnment,
- imputation,
- inclusion,
- incrimination,
- inculpation,
- index,
- indication,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- indictment,
- inference,
- information,
- inkling,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intension,
- intimation,
- involution,
- involvement,
- ironic suggestion,
- kick,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- look,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- nod,
- nuance,
- nudge,
- occult meaning,
- onus,
- overtone,
- peccancy,
- pertinence,
- pith,
- plaint,
- point,
- practical consequence,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- prompt,
- prosecution,
- purport,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- red-handedness,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- reprehensibility,
- reproach,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- scent,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- sign,
- signal,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- spoor,
- structural meaning,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- substance,
- subsumption,
- suggestion,
- suit,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supposition,
- suspicion,
- symbolic meaning,
- symbolism,
- symptom,
- taxing,
- telltale,
- tenor,
- tinge,
- totality of associations,
- touch,
- track,
- transferred meaning,
- true bill,
- unadorned meaning,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- unspoken accusation,
- value,
- veiled accusation,
- whisper,
- wink
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