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Repentant vs Sorrowful - What's the difference?

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Repentant is a related term of sorrowful.


As adjectives the difference between repentant and sorrowful

is that repentant is feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing while sorrowful is of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.

As a noun repentant

is one who repents; a penitent.

repentant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * unrepentant

    Related terms

    * repent * repentance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who repents; a penitent.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    sorrowful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
  • Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
    • sorrowful accident
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
    • She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.

    Synonyms

    * See also * mournful, lamentable, grievous * See also

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