| Remorse 1. (n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. 2. (n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. Thesaurus Entries anxiety, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bitterness, compunction, contriteness, contrition, embarrassment, grief, guilt, guilty conscience, humiliation, mortification, pangs of conscience, penance, penitence, penitently, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regretting, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repentance, repining, rue, ruefulness, self-reproach, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, sorriness, sorrow, wistfulness, woe |