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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. offering or expressing apology;
- Example: "an apologetic note"
- Example: "an apologetic manner"
[syn: apologetic, excusatory]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Apologetic \A*pol`o*get"ic\, Apologetical \A*pol`o*get"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to speak in defense of; ? from + ? speech, ? to say, to speak. See Logic.] Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

apologetic adj 1: offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an apologetic manner" [syn: apologetic, excusatory] [ant: unapologetic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "apologetic": abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, defense, excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble, humbled, justification, justificatory, justifying, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted, palliative, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, refuting, regretful, rehabilitative, remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful, satisfactional, sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched, vindicative, vindicatory