What is another word for apologize?
1353 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɐpˈɒləd͡ʒˌa͡ɪz], [ ɐpˈɒlədʒˌaɪz], [ ɐ_p_ˈɒ_l_ə_dʒ_ˌaɪ_z]Table of Contents
Similar words for apologize:- other relevant words (noun)
- apologize (verb)
- atone (verb)
- communication (verb)
- express remorse, regret (verb)
- regret (verb)
- repent (verb)
- vindicate (verb)
- other synonyms
- atone
- other relevant words
- regret
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Apologize:
n.
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- give satisfaction,
- withdraw,
- express regret,
- make it up to someone,
- bow to,
- excuse oneself,
- make amends,
- beat your breast,
- ask pardon,
- ask forgiveness,
- wear sackcloth and ashes,
- redeem yourself,
- offer an excuse,
- eat crow,
- retract,
- clear oneself,
- put on/wear a hair shirt,
- make reparations for,
- make apology for,
- make up,
- offer compensation.
v.
•apologize (verb) •atone (verb) •communication (verb) •express remorse, regret (verb)- admit guilt,
- cop out,
- make reparations,
- make up with,
- get down on knees,
- beg pardon,
- cop a plea,
- say one is sorry,
- crawl,
- offer excuse,
- purge,
- square.
- be wailing,
- feeling sorry,
- cries over,
- was sorry for,
- be-wailed,
- has compunctions,
- cried over spilled milk,
- be-moan,
- be wails,
- am sorry for,
- kicked oneself,
- art sorry for,
- haddest compunctions,
- be moans,
- weeping over,
- hadst compunctions,
- dis-approved,
- be moaned,
- wast disturbed,
- was disturbed,
- has qualms,
- wert sorry for,
- being disturbed,
- dis-approve,
- wast sorry for,
- be-moans,
- re-pines,
- be moaning,
- having compunctions,
- be wailed,
- having qualms,
- dis-approves,
- dis approve,
- be-moaning,
- re pines,
- is disturbed,
- dis-approving,
- re pine,
- feeling uneasy,
- felt uneasy,
- are sorry for,
- kicking oneself,
- be wail,
- haddest qualms,
- re-pine,
- hast compunctions,
- re-pining,
- looks back,
- be-wail,
- be moan,
- be-moaned,
- had compunctions,
- dis approves,
- looked back,
- feels sorry,
- hadst qualms,
- kicks oneself,
- dis approved,
- be-wails,
- hath qualms,
- feeling remorse,
- crying over,
- am disturbed,
- wert disturbed,
- re-pined,
- cried over,
- weeps over,
- feels uneasy,
- crying over spilled milk,
- hath compunctions,
- be-wailing,
- were sorry for,
- are disturbed,
- dis approving,
- re pined,
- hast qualms,
- cries over spilled milk,
- were disturbed,
- felt sorry,
- had qualms.
- is ashamed,
- shows penitence,
- am contrite,
- is contrite,
- seeing error of ways,
- wast contrite,
- am ashamed,
- wast sorry,
- was ashamed,
- showed penitence,
- were ashamed,
- sees error ways,
- are sorry,
- are contrite,
- art sorry,
- are ashamed,
- reproached oneself,
- re formed,
- seeing error ways,
- was sorry,
- being ashamed,
- wert ashamed,
- was contrite,
- showing penitence,
- re-forms,
- re forming,
- reproaches oneself,
- art contrite,
- wast ashamed,
- am sorry,
- wert sorry,
- were sorry,
- saw error ways,
- saw error of ways,
- art ashamed,
- were contrite,
- re form,
- Re-forming,
- re forms,
- being sorry,
- see error ways,
- wert contrite,
- reproaching oneself,
- is sorry,
- being contrite,
- sees error of ways.
Other synonyms:
•atone- take medicine,
- do penance,
- expiates,
- setting off,
- makes amends,
- making amends,
- paid one's dues,
- make reparation,
- made up for,
- pay one's dues,
- doing penance,
- make up for,
- offsetting,
- pay dues,
- made amends,
- counter-balances,
- out weigh,
- make for,
- set off,
- take one's medicine,
- counter-balance,
- make redress,
- made for,
- redeemed,
- making for.
- call on,
- exonerated,
- dilute,
- twist,
- denigrate,
- gallic,
- leave out,
- hammer,
- unloose,
- construe,
- defense mechanism,
- demurrer,
- take in,
- reproach oneself,
- bring back,
- sully,
- turn over,
- sinkhole,
- counterbalance,
- advert,
- weakened,
- constitute,
- dod,
- stigmatise,
- herb of grace,
- slenderize,
- dampen,
- be,
- denial,
- incite,
- piss,
- curtly,
- induce,
- defamation,
- citation,
- dim,
- ease,
- corroborate,
- pull back,
- defense team,
- redress,
- smudge,
- thin,
- call for,
- displace,
- quote,
- acquire,
- countenance,
- omit,
- charter,
- chicken out,
- take aim,
- colorful,
- badly,
- barf,
- solution,
- abuse,
- command,
- reinforcement,
- need,
- plunk for,
- mollify,
- exact,
- draw back,
- trim down,
- flush,
- incompetent person,
- expiation,
- build,
- desert,
- expand,
- cook,
- clean-cut,
- fight down,
- rue,
- color in,
- counterfeit,
- deletion,
- whittle,
- bread and butter,
- tough,
- foursquare,
- hold,
- dyed,
- clearly,
- devise,
- gratuitous,
- cut of meat,
- compensation,
- mar,
- satisfaction,
- enlighten,
- one-sided,
- fink,
- solvent,
- repentance,
- meritless,
- spoiled,
- burnish,
- furbish up,
- spirt,
- moderate,
- good-for-naught,
- livelihood,
- scale down,
- ruthful,
- vividness,
- excusatory,
- give the axe,
- move around,
- hearty,
- faulty,
- atone,
- glossiness,
- embrace,
- lop,
- shortsighted,
- wreak,
- risky,
- enlarge,
- shrink back,
- grow,
- get to,
- flaw,
- excogitate,
- drab,
- suffice,
- pay off,
- biased,
- see the light,
- wretched,
- coloring,
- besmirch,
- rid,
- facilitate,
- involve,
- trifling,
- cover,
- demean,
- cesspit,
- lamentable,
- invent,
- sequestrate,
- dip,
- bring,
- select,
- conduct,
- abjure,
- hook up with,
- create,
- demand,
- convey,
- alleviate,
- piddle,
- discount,
- name,
- speculative,
- observe,
- consume,
- ignore,
- take a crap,
- trim,
- train,
- neglect,
- chop up,
- emblazon,
- pare down,
- disgorge,
- micturate,
- discredit,
- realise,
- cancel,
- bring up,
- emasculated,
- repair,
- draw in,
- look across,
- bear out,
- arrive at,
- sump,
- exonerative,
- exposit,
- slump,
- seal,
- die,
- scant,
- sanctify,
- fight back,
- pick out,
- straightforward,
- remitment,
- misfortunate,
- amnesty,
- regurgitate,
- formulate,
- progressive,
- crystalise,
- cut back,
- right,
- profess,
- solid,
- adduce,
- pack,
- turn off,
- slice,
- prepare,
- dark,
- salvage,
- direct,
- trim back,
- brighten,
- damages,
- back up,
- resile,
- look out on,
- stock-purchase warrant,
- return,
- detached,
- detonate,
- edit out,
- produce,
- even up,
- spend a penny,
- stick out,
- guarantee,
- resign,
- cause,
- include,
- reclaim,
- negligible,
- notice,
- endure,
- hire,
- coloring material,
- entomb,
- authorise,
- know,
- vomit up,
- retrospect,
- founder,
- solicit,
- swallow hole,
- honk,
- give out,
- dissolve,
- ridiculous,
- colored,
- trademark,
- take on,
- unmortgaged,
- progressive tense,
- allow,
- percipient,
- aspersion,
- short-circuit,
- liberal,
- ingest,
- accept,
- purgation,
- swing,
- sad,
- substandard,
- jejune,
- stomach,
- light up,
- drive,
- throw out,
- no-account,
- subscribe,
- deal,
- take a leak,
- abbreviate,
- oppose,
- assume,
- payoff,
- result,
- play,
- imperfect tense,
- spew,
- revilement,
- shuffling,
- disregard,
- gruntle,
- progress to,
- wrench,
- dead,
- patch up,
- allow in,
- squeal,
- straight,
- exert,
- pretend,
- stool,
- ransomed,
- fail,
- move over,
- continuous tense,
- balancing,
- set out,
- barren,
- rectify,
- respond,
- push aside,
- turn of events,
- sequester,
- fire,
- imprimatur,
- urinate,
- bolster,
- good-for-nothing,
- relinquish,
- serve,
- track,
- cast,
- fashion,
- develop,
- pass water,
- deoxidise,
- thin out,
- backing,
- chuck,
- let in,
- save,
- obdurate,
- self-abasement,
- shrink,
- colorise,
- immerse,
- blob,
- discolor,
- nominate,
- colourize,
- stain,
- purging,
- frail,
- settle,
- call in,
- comprise,
- distressing,
- penitence,
- scour,
- fixing,
- absolved,
- shoot,
- defending team,
- blue,
- contrive,
- regenerate,
- inferior,
- post,
- spot,
- endorsement,
- forget,
- annotate,
- shuffle,
- paucity,
- trigger off,
- bungling,
- score,
- crook,
- complimentary,
- sleek over,
- assistance,
- obstinate,
- mould,
- unsound,
- little,
- disembarrass,
- contract,
- read,
- wield,
- say,
- discolour,
- digest,
- spurt,
- still,
- sustain,
- see,
- warrantee,
- sanction,
- cave in,
- open,
- bend,
- abridge,
- weak,
- short-change,
- mold,
- hack,
- brusk,
- rapprochement,
- unsay,
- lament,
- give the sack,
- gratis,
- retch,
- round,
- shrive,
- keep down,
- stigmatize,
- plump for,
- shame,
- set forth,
- lapse,
- credit,
- relieve oneself,
- dilate,
- contumely,
- keep up,
- suffering,
- affirm,
- solve,
- break down,
- bring down,
- get hitched with,
- claim,
- free pardon,
- keep,
- negro,
- indemnification,
- Rued,
- elucidate,
- dress,
- even off,
- plough,
- assert,
- cut down,
- bit,
- scurvy,
- reply,
- dislodge,
- cook up,
- grovel,
- shape,
- overleap,
- crystallise,
- suddenly,
- retire,
- silly,
- depart,
- act,
- have,
- all the way,
- aim,
- helper,
- reference,
- learn,
- damp,
- subside,
- send packing,
- number,
- subsidence,
- readable,
- puke,
- blade,
- back,
- supporting,
- melt off,
- remittance,
- quotation,
- disconsolate,
- curve,
- stir up,
- sour,
- unqualified,
- allay,
- start,
- denounce,
- swallow up,
- dominate,
- carry,
- review,
- substantiate,
- spare,
- back off,
- spue,
- cushion,
- warranty,
- unfit,
- lighten,
- famine,
- avail,
- weaken,
- fixture,
- take out,
- deoxidize,
- sick,
- engage,
- square toes,
- sack up,
- shorten,
- comport,
- refutation,
- subdue,
- edit,
- activate,
- revenge,
- execrable,
- relent,
- be sick,
- insufficiency,
- force out,
- brush aside,
- shortly,
- mark,
- remit,
- be ashamed,
- hardly,
- tinge,
- receipt,
- ease up,
- implore,
- rebut,
- distort,
- supporter,
- get hold of,
- tap,
- fault,
- slur over,
- marry,
- cleared,
- harmonize,
- inadequateness,
- crawfish out,
- bushel,
- ignominy,
- remedy,
- even out,
- asseverate,
- purify,
- just,
- darn,
- wait on,
- tighten,
- move back,
- brusque,
- undercut,
- illuminate,
- absolvitory,
- overcompensate,
- repossess,
- salve,
- vomit,
- construct,
- glossary,
- swerve,
- tolerate,
- fix,
- department of defense,
- clear-cut,
- fall off,
- cold shoulder,
- bring in,
- vilification,
- crawfish,
- refer,
- abruptly,
- sheer,
- high-risk,
- understand,
- bleached,
- baseball swing,
- slew,
- accompaniment,
- preserve,
- sweep up,
- curt,
- give,
- brook,
- unbosom,
- abject,
- woeful,
- recant,
- propitiation,
- crystallize,
- chop shot,
- require,
- poor,
- shortened,
- take off,
- exculpated,
- attain,
- squarely,
- pee,
- grim,
- inter,
- switch off,
- seclude,
- aid,
- touch off,
- skin,
- touch on,
- fake,
- contain,
- remittal,
- thinned,
- boil down,
- blow up,
- fleck,
- unclouded,
- patronize,
- smirch,
- fawn,
- ready,
- cussed,
- recede,
- pull in,
- trigger,
- form,
- square up,
- gentle,
- can,
- come down,
- peel,
- substantial,
- start out,
- terminate,
- see error of ways,
- deform,
- tailor,
- brand name,
- trade name,
- unblock,
- indorse,
- low-down,
- calumny,
- unskilled,
- rent,
- pee-pee,
- deport,
- patch,
- translate,
- assoil,
- unloosen,
- shit,
- reenforcement,
- defense department,
- change by reversal,
- recognise,
- confirm,
- recognize,
- colorize,
- dreary,
- adjourn,
- dingy,
- lenify,
- pretermit,
- placate,
- opt out,
- give up,
- lay to rest,
- cutting,
- food color,
- regorge,
- proceeds,
- retaliate,
- public square,
- defensive structure,
- assuage,
- turning,
- snub,
- elaborate,
- devoid,
- sort out,
- instigate,
- trend,
- coating,
- summons,
- polish,
- abye,
- sorrow,
- crap,
- back out,
- concentrate,
- self-justification,
- unclutter,
- authorize,
- throw up,
- brandmark,
- stand,
- skip,
- spoilt,
- smear,
- liberate,
- mention,
- takings,
- take down,
- routine,
- pray,
- cake,
- food coloring,
- suffer,
- snip,
- slim,
- send away,
- gain,
- necessitate,
- clip,
- take up,
- occupy,
- draw off,
- mown,
- lease,
- summon,
- seduce,
- foregone,
- defensive measure,
- re-formed,
- clear up,
- clumsy,
- use up,
- mending,
- pull in one's horns,
- wanting,
- help oneself,
- choose,
- want,
- establish,
- creep,
- call back,
- chopper,
- decoct,
- swallow,
- yield,
- veer,
- conk out,
- slue,
- uncollectible,
- reach,
- pull away,
- skate over,
- tour,
- asperse,
- work,
- chip at,
- pelage,
- get married,
- trimmed,
- burn,
- change state,
- marque,
- comment,
- flesh out,
- subscribe to,
- forgetful,
- actuate,
- second power,
- gelded,
- catch up with,
- skimp over,
- shortage,
- foreshorten,
- defecate,
- abduce,
- write out,
- be contrite,
- get,
- defense force,
- loose,
- reverse,
- take a shit,
- vindicated,
- endorse,
- drear,
- dishonor,
- cut up,
- study,
- remove,
- fill,
- stimulate,
- aver,
- drop,
- slanted,
- sword,
- whitewash,
- postulate,
- incapable,
- slide down,
- dishonour,
- firebrand,
- film,
- hush up,
- break,
- controvert,
- part,
- cower,
- rubric,
- gash,
- big,
- ca-ca,
- exculpation,
- bow out,
- denigration,
- rick,
- feather,
- overtop,
- earn,
- excision,
- musical accompaniment,
- cut off,
- turn out,
- go down,
- sprain,
- unfreeze,
- upbraid,
- venial,
- upchuck,
- fall in,
- release,
- nontaxable,
- costless,
- badness,
- diss,
- collapse,
- brush off,
- colouration,
- funding,
- bypast,
- forswear,
- top,
- geld,
- pay,
- lead,
- ruefulness,
- spark,
- defense reaction,
- front crawl,
- hold up,
- flex,
- low,
- straighten out,
- slashed,
- represent,
- wee,
- strike,
- semblance,
- go under,
- decipherable,
- ferment,
- indemnify,
- buffer,
- bout,
- stigma,
- show penitence,
- response,
- back away,
- calumniate,
- behave,
- cat,
- follow,
- impenitent,
- wee-wee,
- inhume,
- conjoin,
- repress,
- uphold,
- realize,
- patronage,
- slash,
- satisfying,
- keep going,
- unequal,
- fabricate,
- underpin,
- champion,
- cutting off,
- scarcely,
- attend to,
- departed,
- puddle,
- cringe,
- retreat,
- water under the bridge,
- usher out,
- crystalize,
- shortstop,
- stock warrant,
- bear,
- drop down,
- defame,
- be sorry,
- apologia,
- unretentive,
- stinger,
- lay down,
- attaint,
- resolve,
- lame,
- scummy,
- light,
- discharge,
- abide,
- eat up,
- correct,
- give notice,
- submit,
- steel,
- self-mortification,
- dismal,
- indemnity,
- repent,
- supplication,
- appease,
- no-good,
- adopt,
- pass,
- sustenance,
- innocent,
- fumbling,
- wrick,
- make out,
- aby,
- crawling,
- defense lawyers,
- go bad,
- barely,
- backup,
- lacking,
- surface,
- restore,
- put down,
- rueful,
- disengage,
- conserve,
- make water,
- throw,
- destitute,
- blur,
- harmonise,
- gloomy,
- daub,
- pacify,
- shortfall,
- fight,
- guide,
- financial backing,
- recall,
- issue,
- deplorable,
- heal,
- service,
- plow,
- look at,
- forged,
- regret,
- explode,
- go,
- wed,
- doctor,
- cesspool,
- assistant,
- fallible,
- myopic,
- accommodate,
- gone,
- take away,
- remunerate,
- net,
- patronise,
- remission of sin,
- unequal to,
- trip,
- miss,
- hapless,
- blemish,
- shed light on,
- expatiate,
- sack,
- concede,
- colourise,
- spark off,
- guard,
- look out over,
- consider,
- creeping,
- manufacture,
- financial support,
- attend,
- no-count,
- bring out,
- render,
- crop,
- become,
- smithy,
- free people,
- quash,
- degrade,
- look backward,
- ask,
- documentation,
- make believe,
- acknowledgment,
- unforesightful,
- lucubrate,
- resolution,
- take over,
- offset,
- unremorseful,
- unawares,
- spell,
- clean,
- living,
- slim down,
- good turn,
- put up,
- restitution,
- well-defined,
- measly,
- subjugate,
- intromit,
- pull out,
- draw,
- exoneration.
- Regretted,
- be disturbed,
- wept over,
- is sorry for,
- kick oneself,
- look back,
- have compunctions,
- cry over,
- being sorry for,
- felt remorse,
- feels remorse,
- looking back,
- be sorry for,
- repine,
- have qualms,
- weep over,
- cry over spilled milk,
- feel uneasy.
- bolster up,
- paltry,
- think better of,
- cite,
- sorrowful,
- defense,
- affront,
- deficiency,
- reform,
- help,
- plead ignorance,
- brand,
- expound,
- make concessions,
- libel,
- plead guilty,
- explicate,
- slur,
- mourn,
- regretful,
- bad,
- take back,
- reproach,
- defence,
- feel remorse,
- gloss over,
- imperfect,
- insult,
- blot,
- make excuses,
- slander,
- back down,
- disgrace,
- short,
- inadequacy,
- mince,
- alibi,
- worm out of,
- vindication,
- exempt,
- insufficient,
- Gloze,
- contrite,
- miserable,
- inadequate,
- defect,
- carve,
- condone,
- remorseful,
- pitiable,
- alibi out of,
- apologetic,
- gloss,
- scarce,
- interpret,
- beg indulgence,
- deficit,
- dearth,
- deplore,
- pare,
- espouse,
- coloured,
- vouch,
- pitiful,
- relieve,
- deficient,
- colors,
- reduce,
- plea,
- smooth over,
- beg off,
- chop,
- warrant,
- incompetent,
- pathetic,
- apology,
- coat,
- prune,
- cut,
- compensate,
- bewail,
- extenuate,
- bemoan,
- colours,
- sorry,
- squirm out of,
- shortcoming,
- assist,
- give way,
- allege,
- soften,
- coloration,
- feel sorry,
- let-off,
- free,
- extenuating,
- apologize for,
- excuse me,
- defective,
- varnish,
- explain,
- justification,
- piteous,
- palliate,
- penitent,
- eat your words,
- colouring,
- lack.
Paraphrases for Apologize:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
apologizes.
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Interjection
apologise.
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Verb, past tense
apologised, apologise.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
apologise.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
apologises.
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Verb, base form
apologise.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, plural
rationales, pardons, justifications, pretexts.
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Verb, past tense
lied.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
disculpo.
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Noun, plural
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Other Related
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Interjection
excuses.
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Verb, base form
forgive.
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Interjection
Antonyms for Apologize:
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v.
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express remorse, regret
defy.
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express remorse, regret