remorse
Plural: remorses
Noun
- Deep anguish caused by a sense of guilt for past wrongs.
- a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
- A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
- Sorrow; pity; compassion.
Verb
- To experience remorse; to regret.
Examples
- I felt deep REMORSE for missing that triple word score opportunity in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment, vex”, literally “to bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“to bite”). More at remord.
Synonyms
compunction, self-reproach, agenbite, blueness, blues, bowels, commiseration, compassion, contrition, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, empathy, fellow feeling, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, loving-kindness, melancholia, melancholy, mercy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, penitence, pity, prosternation, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sadness, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness
Antonyms
apathy, irrepentance, nonrepentance, unremorsefulness, unrepentance
Scrabble Score: 9
remorse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordremorse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
remorse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary