Contrite and Mean

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

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Mean is an antonym for contrite in regretful topic.

Nearby Words: contrition, contritely

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

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Contrite is an antonym for mean.

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

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