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.