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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds;
[syn: penitent, repentant]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Repentant \Re*pent"ant\ (-ant), a. [F. repentant.] 1. Penitent; sorry for sin. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. --Millton. [1913 Webster] 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Repentant \Re*pent"ant\, n. One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

repentant adj 1: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds [syn: penitent, repentant] [ant: impenitent, unremorseful, unrepentant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "repentant": abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed, expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, regretful, remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful, satisfactional, sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched