All compunctious synonyms
com·punc·tious
C c adj compunctious
- 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.
- contrite — If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong.
- penitent — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- regretful — full of regret; sorrowful because of what is lost, gone, or done.
- repentant — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
- 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.
adjective compunctious
- remorseful — full of remorse.