Compunctious and Pitiful

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Compunctious adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.

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Pitiful and compunctious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pitiful" instead an adjective "Compunctious".

Pitiful adjective - Deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy).

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Compunctious and pitiful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compunctious" instead an adjective "Pitiful".

Nearby Words: pity, pitiless, pitiable, piteous, pitifully

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