remorseful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=morse=ful

CIDE DICTIONARY

remorseful, a. 

•  Full of remorse.  [1913 Webster]

  "The full tide of remorseful passion had abated."  [1913 Webster]
•  Compassionate; feeling tenderly.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Exciting pity; pitiable.  Chapman.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

remorseful, adj. filled with repentance.

Derivative

remorsefully adv.

THESAURUS

remorseful

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