Repentant Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Repentant

penitent
Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.
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contrite
Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.
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rueful
Inspiring pity or compassion.
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compunctious
Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
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penitential
Of, relating to, or expressing penitence.
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regretful
Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
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remorseful
Marked by or filled with remorse.
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apologetic
Offering or expressing an apology or excuse:
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Antonyms for Repentant

impenitent
The definition of impenitent is someone who is not sorry for what they've done.
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unrepentant
Having or exhibiting no remorse.
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Words Related to Repentant

sorry
(Of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
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regret
Feeling or expressing regret for one's sins or misdeeds
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righteous
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betrayer
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Repentant Sentence Examples

  • I'm not repentant about it, it's worked out very well for me.

  • I 'm not repentant about it, it 's worked out very well for me.

  • The next day, the rest of his family visit him, and find him truly repentant of his former ungovernable pride.

  • Probably Pitt did say something of the kind attributed to him, though even this is by no means certain in view of Johnson's repentant admission that he had often invented not merely the form, but the substance of entire debates.

  • Thus Hetty is closer to a Medea than to a repentant Magdalen and her crime makes her almost inhuman.

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