repentant

/rɪˈpɛntɪnt/

/rɪˈpɛntɪnt/

When people are repentant, they’re feeling or showing remorse. They're sorry and ashamed of something. If you take the last cookie and then lie about it, you’re probably going to feel repentant later, if you have a heart.

If you’re feeling repentant, you’re ready to apologize because you know you did something wrong. It could be that you kissed your best friend’s sweetheart, or you broke some kind of religious rule that’s making you feel guilty. Either way, the best way to get over feeling repentant is to repent, or acknowledge what you’ve done and promise not to do it any more.

Definitions of repentant

1. adjective

   feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
   synonyms: penitent

   ashamed

   feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse

   bad, regretful, sorry

   feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

   contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful

   feeling or expressing pain or sorrow

   penitential, penitentiary

   showing or constituting penance

   antonyms:

   unrepentant

   not penitent or remorseful

   unashamed

   used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame

   unregenerate, unregenerated

   not reformed morally or spiritually