| Repentant 1. (a.) Penitent; sorry for sin. 2. (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. 3. (n.) One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent. Thesaurus Entries 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 |