Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
compunctious
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
compunctious
noun
(com-punc-tion)
anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
compunctious
noun
(com-punc-tion)
distress of mind over an anticipated action or result
compunctious
noun
(com-punc-tion)
a twinge of misgiving : scruple
Words Related to
compunctious
!
remorse
,
sorriness
,
guilt
,
ruthfulness
,
remord
,
qualmishness
,
regret
,
mark of cain
,
pity
,
culpe
,
forthink
,
shame
,
dubitation
,
forgivingness
,
wanhope
,
dissympathy
,
sorrow
,
excuse
,
apathist
,
apology
,
heartgrief
,
dispathy
,
mortifiedness
,
sadness
,
synteresis
,
immortification
,
misericorde
,
scrupler
,
dedecorate
,
run afoul
,
luctual
,
unconscientiousness
,
hold dear
,
eariness
,
holy mother
,
grudger
,
griefful
,
shend
,
griefless
,
impleadable
,
wrawness
,
agrief
,
peccancy
,
excusation
,
unsin
,
condolement
,
indign
,
parvanimity
,
contrition
,
dolent
,
mammer
,
unsadden
,
conscience
,
scruple
,
corsned
,
indignify
,
sin
,
dedolent
,
cacophobia
,
emotional state
,
essoin
,
plaintful
,
poltroonery
,
contristate
,
repentingly
,
loathful
,
dolefulness
,
rudity
,
displacency
,
dempne
,
unsorrowed
,
improbity
,
oversorrow
,
incompassionate
,
sympathy
,
sincereness
,
qualm
,
essoiner
,
mistrow
,
wellaway
,
conspiracy of silence
,
grief
,
sympathize with
,
giltif
,
disquietness
,
unheart
,
embarrassment
,
bloodguilty
,
swivet
,
mercify
,
groanful
,
dubitate
,
grudgeful
,
misdoubtful
,
culpability
,
compassion
,
misfare
,
despisement
,
unrespect
,
despair
,
compunctious
Examples by Brain Bank Users