Compunctious
Compunctious adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.
Saddened and compunctious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Saddened" instead an adjective "Compunctious".
Saddened
Saddened adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Compunctious and saddened are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compunctious" instead an adjective "Saddened".
Nearby Word: saddening
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- melancholy and compunctious
- melancholy and saddened
- woeful and compunctious
- woeful and saddened
- disturbed and compunctious
- disturbed and saddened
- sad and compunctious
- sad and saddened
- unhappy and compunctious
- unhappy and saddened
- bad and compunctious
- bad and saddened
- sorry and compunctious
- sorry and saddened
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