Compunctious
Compunctious adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.
Discomfited and compunctious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Discomfited" instead an adjective "Compunctious".
Discomfited
Discomfited adjective - Disappointingly unsuccessful.
Compunctious and discomfited are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compunctious" instead an adjective "Discomfited".
Nearby Words: discomfiture, discomfiting
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- uncomfortable and compunctious
- uncomfortable and discomfited
- sorry and compunctious
- sorry and discomfited
- distressed and compunctious
- distressed and discomfited
- humiliated and compunctious
- humiliated and discomfited
- embarrassed and compunctious
- embarrassed and discomfited
- sheepish and compunctious
- sheepish and discomfited
- mortified and compunctious
- mortified and discomfited
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