Synonyms of the word

remorse

• n. A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
• n. (obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.

compunction

• n. A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

regret

• v. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened,…
• v. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
• n. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different;…
• n. (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

rue

• n. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
• n. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
• v. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had…
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
• n. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used…

ruefulness

• n. The property of being rueful.

self-reproach

• n. Blame or condemnation directed at the self, as by the conscience.

sorrow

• n. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.
• n. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
• v. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.