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Word Meanings - REMORSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of remorse. The full tide of remorseful passion had abated. Sir W. Scott. 2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. Shak. 3. Exciting pity; pitiable. Chapman. -- Re*morse"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"ful*ness, n.

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  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • ABATVOIX
    The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
  • EXCITABLE
    Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • ABATER
    One who, or that which, abates.
  • EXCITING
    Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
  • EXCITATION
    The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
  • FEELINGLY
    In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • EXCITABILITY
    The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
  • EXCITATOR
    A kind of discarder.
  • REMORSELESS
    Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
  • EXCITATE
    To excite. Bacon.
  • FEELER
    One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
  • EXCITEFUL
    Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
  • PASSIONLESS
    Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
  • ABATTOIR
    A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
  • EXCITO-NUTRIENT
    Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
  • PITIABLE
    Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. Syn. -- Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. -- Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pit"i*a*bly, adv.
  • RABATINE
    A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • UNREMORSELESS
    Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
  • MISFEELING
    Insensate. Wyclif.
  • IMPASSIONABLE
    Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

 

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