Apologetic Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Apologetic

Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.

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Full of remorse; feeling, expressing, or caused by remorse

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Tending to conciliate or reconcile

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Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.

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Expressing disapproval or criticism.

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Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret:

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down on one's knees

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(Of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

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Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.

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reclamatory

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Tending to rehabilitate.

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restitutional

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Not drawing attention to oneself; modest.

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Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.

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Characterized by or demonstrating repentance; penitent.

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supplicating

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self-reproachful

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self-condemnatory

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self-incriminating

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Of, relating to, or expressing penitence.

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conscience-stricken

Feeling guilty or remorseful because of having done some wrong

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A formal spoken or written defense of some idea, religion, philosophy, etc.

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atoning

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Of or pertaining to expiation

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Intended to serve as an explanation.

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The definition of extenuating is circumstances or facts that are lessening the severity of something or explaining bad behavior.

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expressing regret

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Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.

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A written defense of a position or belief.

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regretfully acknowledging

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The fact or state of being defended

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A showing of an appropriate reason for one’s actions.

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Something that provides evidence or support for a claim or argument:

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satisfactional

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Intended to propitiate, reconcile, expiate or appease; conciliatory.

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excusatory

Serving to make an excuse

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compensational

That compensates

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Antonyms for Apologetic

Not apologetic, especially when being apologetic would be appropriate.

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The definition of defiant is someone or something that resists behaving or conforming to what is asked or expected.

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Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.

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Having or exhibiting no remorse.

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Sinful; dissolute.

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expressing remorse, regret

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Words Related to Apologetic

Expressing or inclined to express an apology

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The experience or beginning of a feeling, need, or desire:

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Find another word for apologetic. In this page you can discover 52 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for apologetic, like: unapologetic, vindicatory, remorseful, conciliatory, contrite, deprecatory, rueful, down on one's knees, sorry, regret and regretful.