All attritional synonyms
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A a adj attritional
- remorseful — full of remorse.
- regretful — full of regret; sorrowful because of what is lost, gone, or done.
- conciliatory — When you are conciliatory in your actions or behaviour, you show that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone.
- repentant — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
- contrite — If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong.
- sorry — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- remorseful — full of remorse.
- apologetic — If you are apologetic, you show or say that you are sorry for causing trouble for someone, for hurting them, or for disappointing them.
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- ashamed — If someone is ashamed, they feel embarrassed or guilty because of something they do or they have done, or because of their appearance.
- sad — Systems Analysis Definition
- touched — moved; stirred: They were very touched by your generosity.
- compunctious — causing or feeling compunction; regretful.
- penitent — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- penitential — of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or expressive of penitence or repentance.
- rueful — causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- atoning — to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for): to atone for one's sins.
- propitiatory — serving or intended to propitiate.
- self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
- on one's knees — Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- conscience-stricken — feeling anxious or guilty
- sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- abject — You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
- disappointed — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.
- accusant — a person who accuses or blames
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
adjective attritional
- regret — to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.
- guilty — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.