remorse
US: /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/
UK: /ɹɪmˈɔːs/
UK: /ɹɪmˈɔːs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
remorse /ri'mɔ:s/
- danh từ
- sự ăn năn, sự hối hận
- to feel remorse: cảm thấy hối hận
- lòng thương hại, lòng thương xót
- without remorse: không thương xót, tàn nhẫn
- sự ăn năn, sự hối hận
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
[U] ~ (for sth / for doing sth) the feeling of being extremely sorry for sth wrong or bad that you have done
Synonym: REGRET
I felt guilty and full of remorse. + He was filled with remorse for not believing her. + She felt no remorse at leaving them without notice.
remorseful adjective: He seemed genuinely remorseful for what he had done.
remorsefully adverb
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
regret, repentance, ruefulness, sorrow, woe, anxiety, guilty or bad conscience, pangs of conscience, humiliation, embarrassment, guilt, self-reproach, mortification, shame, contrition, contriteness, penitence, compunction, bitterness:
It is impossible to describe the remorse he felt at having run over the little girl's puppy.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
deep, genuine, real
QUANT.
pang, stab
VERB + REMORSE
be filled with, be full of, be overcome with, be stricken with, feel, have, suffer
She knew that the next day she would be guilty and full of remorse. I suffered no remorse.
| display, express, show
PREP.
without ~
He died without remorse.
| ~ at
He felt some remorse at his behaviour.
| ~ for
She was filled with remorse for the crime.
| ~ over
She felt a sharp pang of remorse over the incident.
PHRASES
a feeling of remorse, tears of remorse
Concise English dictionary
rɪ'mɔrs /-'mɔːs
noun
+a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
