Compunctious
Compunctious adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.
Grieved and compunctious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grieved" instead an adjective "Compunctious".
Grieved
Compunctious and grieved are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compunctious" instead an adjective "Grieved".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- melancholy and compunctious
- melancholy and grieved
- woeful and compunctious
- woeful and grieved
- disturbed and compunctious
- disturbed and grieved
- sad and compunctious
- sad and grieved
- unhappy and compunctious
- unhappy and grieved
- sorry and compunctious
- sorry and grieved
- sorrowful and compunctious
- sorrowful and grieved
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