penitent
adjective
formaluk/ˈpen.ɪ.tənt/us/ˈpen.ə.tənt/showingthat you aresorryfor something you have done because youfeelit waswrong:
悔过的，忏悔的"I'msorry," she said with a penitentsmile.“对不起，”她歉疚地笑着说。
It was hard to beangrywith him when helookedso penitent.当他看起来那么懊悔时，很难对他发火。
Synonym
repentantformal
Opposites
impenitentformal
unrepentant
Making & accepting apologies
- afraid
- apologetically
- apologize
- atone forsomething
- atonement
- bury the hatchetidiom
- conciliatory
- crawl back (tosomeone)idiom
- excuse
- expiate
- forgiving
- pardonable
- peace
- plead
- remission
- repent
- sink
- soz
- takesomethingback
- turn the other cheekidiom
penitent
noun[C]
formaluk/ˈpen.ɪ.tənt/us/ˈpen.ə.tənt/apersonwho isperformingaformalreligiousactto show that they aresorryfor something they have donewrong
悔罪者，忏悔者Religious people: believers & non-believers
- anti-evolution
- anti-evolutionary
- anti-evolutionist
- anti-humanist
- antichrist
- deist
- evolutionist
- faithful
- faithless
- faithlessly
- libertine
- monotheist
- mystic
- non-believer
- non-Christian
- theist
- theistic
- unbelief
- unbeliever
- unbelieving