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- penitent
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
- feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Related Words:
- melted
collapse - changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow" related words >
- pew
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- long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation related words >
- amen corner,
- anxious bench,
- anxious seat,
- booth,
- box,
- cavity,
- cell,
- cellule,
- chamber,
- compartment,
- crib,
- crypt,
- enclosed space,
- hold,
- hole,
- hollow,
- manger,
- penitent form,
- sedilia,
- stall,
- vault
- anxious,
- apologetic,
- ashamed,
- bad,
- bitter,
- compunctious,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contrite,
- embarrassed,
- full of remorse,
- guilty,
- humbled,
- humiliated,
- mortified,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- regretful,
- repentant,
- repining,
- rueful,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shamed,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- unhappy about,
- wistful,
- woeful
- abashed,
- abject,
- blushing,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contrite,
- crestfallen,
- crushed,
- discomfited,
- embarrassed,
- full of remorse,
- hangdog,
- humbled,
- humiliated,
- mean,
- mortified,
- out of countenance,
- penitent,
- red-faced,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- repining,
- rueful,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shamed,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- sheepish,
- sorry,
- unhappy about,
- wistful
- guilty
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- showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
- responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; or marked by guilt; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"; "a guilty conscience"; "guilty behavior" related words >
- accountable,
- amiss,
- answerable,
- apologetic,
- arraignable,
- ashamed,
- at fault,
- blamable,
- blameful,
- blameworthy,
- censurable,
- conscience-stricken,
- contrite,
- criminal,
- culpable,
- delinquent,
- embarrassed,
- faulty,
- impeachable,
- impeached,
- implicated,
- incriminated,
- inculpated,
- indictable,
- indicted,
- involved,
- offending,
- peccant,
- penitent,
- red-faced,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- reprehensible,
- reproachable,
- reprovable,
- responsible,
- rueful,
- sheepish,
- sinful,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- to blame,
- unholy,
- wrong
- abject,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- ashamed,
- atoning,
- cleansing,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- compunctious,
- contrite,
- embarrassed,
- expiatory,
- humble,
- humbled,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- melted,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- righting,
- rueful,
- satisfactional,
- sheepish,
- softened,
- sorry,
- squaring,
- touched
- abject,
- amenable,
- apologetic,
- asinine,
- blushful,
- blushing,
- bovid,
- bovine,
- caprid,
- caprine,
- compliant,
- contrite,
- cowish,
- cowlike,
- deerlike,
- docile,
- embarrassed,
- equestrian,
- equine,
- flushed,
- goatish,
- goatlike,
- hircine,
- hoggish,
- hoofed,
- horsy,
- humble,
- humbled,
- manipulable,
- meek,
- melted,
- mulish,
- obedient,
- ovine,
- passive,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- piggish,
- pliable,
- red,
- repentant,
- ruddy,
- ruminant,
- shamefaced,
- sheeplike,
- softened,
- swinish,
- timid,
- touched,
- tractable,
- ungulate,
- withdrawn
- penitential
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- showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words"
- of or relating to penitence or penance; "the Day of Atonement is the great penitential day of the Hebrew calendar" related words >
- abject,
- amendatory,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- balancing,
- cleansing,
- compensating,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- compunctious,
- contrite,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- countervailing,
- expiatory,
- humble,
- humbled,
- indemnificatory,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- melted,
- offsetting,
- penitent,
- penitentiary,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- recompensive,
- rectifying,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- regretful,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- retaliatory,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- sheepish,
- softened,
- sorry,
- squaring,
- touched
- abashed,
- abject,
- apologetic,
- ashamed,
- blushing,
- bowed down,
- broken,
- brought down,
- brought low,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- conquered,
- contrite,
- crestfallen,
- crushed,
- diminished,
- domesticated,
- embarrassed,
- felled,
- flattened,
- hangdog,
- housebroke,
- housebroken,
- humble,
- humiliated,
- in the dust,
- lowered,
- made to grovel,
- mastered,
- melted,
- mortified,
- out of countenance,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- put down,
- quelled,
- red-faced,
- reduced,
- repentant,
- set down,
- shamed,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- sheepish,
- smashed,
- softened,
- subdued,
- subjugated,
- suppressed,
- tamed,
- touched,
- vanquished
- regretful
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- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" related words >
- apologetic,
- ashamed,
- baffled,
- balked,
- betrayed,
- bilked,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- chapfallen,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contrite,
- crestfallen,
- crossed,
- crushed,
- dashed,
- defeated,
- disappointed,
- dished,
- disillusioned,
- dissatisfied,
- foiled,
- frustrated,
- full of remorse,
- guilty,
- ill done-by,
- ill-served,
- let down,
- mournful,
- out of countenance,
- penitent,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- repining,
- rueful,
- sad,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- sorely disappointed,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- soured,
- thwarted,
- unhappy about,
- wistful
- apologetic
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- offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an apologetic manner" related words >
- abject,
- apologia,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- cleansing,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- compunctious,
- conscience-stricken,
- contrite,
- defense,
- excusatory,
- excusing,
- expiatory,
- extenuating,
- extenuative,
- humble,
- humbled,
- justification,
- justificatory,
- justifying,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- melted,
- palliative,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- refuting,
- regretful,
- rehabilitative,
- remorseful,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- righting,
- rueful,
- satisfactional,
- sheepish,
- softened,
- sorry,
- squaring,
- touched,
- vindicative,
- vindicatory
- touched
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- having come into contact related words >
- abject,
- abnormal,
- affected,
- agonized,
- apologetic,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- contrite,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- devoured by,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- humble,
- humbled,
- imbued with,
- impressed,
- impressed with,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- melted,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- moved,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- obsessed,
- obsessed by,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- penetrated with,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- psycho,
- queer,
- racked,
- reasonless,
- repentant,
- seized with,
- senseless,
- sheepish,
- sick,
- softened,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- stricken,
- tetched,
- torn,
- tortured,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless,
- wracked
- softened
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- toned down related words >
- abject,
- apologetic,
- bated,
- chastened,
- complaisant,
- conditioned,
- constrained,
- contrite,
- controlled,
- creamy,
- damped,
- dampened,
- dead,
- deadened,
- delicate,
- dull,
- dulled,
- easy,
- eggshell,
- flat,
- gentle,
- gloss,
- hedged,
- hedged about,
- humble,
- humbled,
- hushed,
- in control,
- in hand,
- iridescent,
- leavened,
- light,
- limited,
- low-key,
- mellow,
- mellowy,
- melted,
- mild,
- mitigated,
- modified,
- modulated,
- mollified,
- mother-of-pearl,
- muffled,
- muted,
- nacreous,
- nonresistive,
- nonrigid,
- opalescent,
- pale,
- pastel,
- patinaed,
- pearly,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- qualified,
- quelled,
- quiet,
- repentant,
- restrained,
- restricted,
- sad,
- seasoned,
- semigloss,
- sheepish,
- simple,
- smothered,
- sober,
- soft,
- soft as putty,
- soft-colored,
- soft-hued,
- somber,
- sordo,
- stable,
- stifled,
- subdued,
- subtle,
- sweet,
- tempered,
- tender,
- touched,
- whisper-soft
- abject
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- showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
- of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
- most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
- showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender" related words >
- abominable,
- accepting,
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- apologetic,
- arrant,
- assenting,
- atrocious,
- backscratching,
- base,
- beggarly,
- bootlicking,
- cheesy,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- consenting,
- contemptible,
- contrite,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- crummy,
- debased,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- execrable,
- fawning,
- flagrant,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- heinous,
- humble,
- humble-minded,
- humble-spirited,
- humbled,
- humblehearted,
- ingratiating,
- little,
- low,
- low-down,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mealymouthed,
- mean,
- measly,
- meek,
- meek-minded,
- meek-spirited,
- meekhearted,
- melted,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nefarious,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obnoxious,
- obsequious,
- odious,
- on bended knee,
- paltry,
- parasitic,
- passive,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- petty,
- poky,
- poor,
- poor in spirit,
- prostrate,
- rank,
- repentant,
- reptilian,
- resigned,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- servile,
- shabby,
- sheepish,
- shoddy,
- small,
- sniveling,
- softened,
- sponging,
- squalid,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- touched,
- truckling,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- underfoot,
- unmentionable,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- vile,
- wretched
- abject,
- apologetic,
- ashamed,
- bad,
- base,
- base-minded,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- common,
- compunctious,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contemptible,
- contrite,
- crummy,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- despicable,
- discontented,
- disgraceful,
- dismal,
- full of remorse,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grim,
- gutter,
- heavyhearted,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- humorless,
- ignoble,
- ill-starred,
- in bad humor,
- inadequate,
- infestive,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-minded,
- mean,
- melancholy,
- meretricious,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- opprobrious,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pleasureless,
- poor,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- repining,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- scandalous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shabby,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sorrowful,
- sorryish,
- star-crossed,
- stark,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unbecoming,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unhappy,
- unhappy about,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unsmiling,
- unworthy of one,
- valueless,
- vile,
- wistful,
- worthless,
- wretched
- humble
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- marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him" related words >
- abase,
- abash,
- abject,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjusting,
- altruistic,
- amenable,
- apologetic,
- base,
- baseborn,
- beat down,
- below the salt,
- bend,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bring low,
- bring to terms,
- broken,
- bump,
- bust,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- chasten,
- chastened,
- cockney,
- committed,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compliant,
- conquer,
- consecrated,
- contrite,
- crush,
- debase,
- dedicated,
- deferential,
- deflate,
- degrade,
- demean,
- demeaning,
- demote,
- deplume,
- devoted,
- disadvantaged,
- discomfit,
- disgrace,
- disgrade,
- disinterested,
- displume,
- domesticated,
- dovelike,
- downgrade,
- embarrass,
- fell,
- flatten,
- gentle,
- homely,
- housebroken,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humbled,
- humblest,
- humiliate,
- ignoble,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- insignificant,
- junior,
- lamblike,
- least,
- less,
- lesser,
- let down,
- lose face,
- low,
- lowborn,
- lowbred,
- lower,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- master,
- mean,
- meek,
- melted,
- mild,
- minor,
- modest,
- mortify,
- nonclerical,
- obedient,
- obscure,
- obsequious,
- ordinary,
- overmaster,
- override,
- overwhelm,
- pacific,
- passive,
- peaceable,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- plain,
- plebeian,
- poor,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to shame,
- quell,
- quiet,
- reconciled,
- reduce,
- repentant,
- reserved,
- resigned,
- respectful,
- ride down,
- rude,
- sacrificing,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- servile,
- shabby-genteel,
- shame,
- sheepish,
- simple,
- sink,
- small,
- smash,
- softened,
- strip of rank,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subject,
- subjugate,
- submissive,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- suppress,
- tame,
- tamed,
- teachable,
- third rank,
- third string,
- third-estate,
- touched,
- trample down,
- trample underfoot,
- tread underfoot,
- tyrannize,
- unacquisitive,
- unambitious,
- unaspiring,
- unassuming,
- unboastful,
- uncomplaining,
- underprivileged,
- undistinguished,
- ungenteel,
- unimportant,
- unimposing,
- unman,
- unobtrusive,
- unostentatious,
- unpossessive,
- unprepossessing,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unresisting,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- unwashed,
- vanquish,
- vulgar
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