1004 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kəmpˈʌŋkʃən], [ kəmpˈʌŋkʃən], [ k_ə_m_p_ˈʌ_ŋ_k_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for compunction:

• cause (noun)
• compassion (noun)
• conscience (noun)
• contrition (noun)
• feeling (noun)
• moral sense (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• penance (noun)
• penitence (noun)
• pity (noun)
• qualm (noun)
• regret (noun)
• remorse (noun)
• repentance (noun)
• scruple (noun)
• shame (noun)
• solicitude (noun)
• uneasiness (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Compunction:

• n.

  •
  • integrity,
  • purity,
  • respectability,
  • propriety,
  • good,
  • decency,
  • goodness,
  • right,
  • modesty,
  • virtue.
  •
  • hesitation.
  •
  • certain,
  • reservation.
  • cause (noun)
  • enforcement,
  • provocation,
  • mainspring,
  • drive,
  • force,
  • determinant,
  • factor,
  • evocation,
  • cause,
  • action,
  • motive,
  • effectuation,
  • source,
  • execution,
  • grounds,
  • inspiration,
  • compulsion,
  • root,
  • origination,
  • basis,
  • generation,
  • elicitation,
  • stimulus,
  • motivator.
  • compassion (noun)
  • softheartednesses,
  • tenderheartednesses,
  • humanenesses.
  • conscience (noun)
  • still small voice,
  • right and wrong,
  • small voice,
  • superego,
  • squeam,
  • Superegos.
  • contrition (noun)
  • self reproaches,
  • selfreproach,
  • self-reproaches,
  • self reproach,
  • selfreproaches.
  • feeling (noun)
  • compunction.
  • moral sense (noun)
  • conscience.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • empathy,
  • humaneness,
  • sackcloth and ashes,
  • dyspathy,
  • sorriness,
  • qualm,
  • repentance,
  • penance,
  • queasiness,
  • contriteness,
  • shrifts,
  • rue,
  • uneasiness,
  • insecurity,
  • remorse,
  • shame,
  • penalty,
  • pity,
  • pangs of conscience,
  • compassion,
  • shrift,
  • softheartedness,
  • tenderheartedness,
  • in security,
  • self-flagellation,
  • penitence,
  • expiation,
  • solicitude,
  • regret,
  • lenity,
  • self-reproach,
  • humanities.
  • penance (noun)
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • selfflagellations,
  • expiations,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • self flagellation,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • selfflagellation,
  • self flagellations,
  • self-flagellations.
  • penitence (noun)
  • self-punishment,
  • self-castigation.
  • pity (noun)
  • Condolement.
  • qualm (noun)
  • in-security,
  • dis quiets,
  • mis doubt,
  • un-certainty,
  • mis-giving,
  • mis doubts,
  • dis-quiets,
  • re-monstrance,
  • in-securities,
  • un eases,
  • mis-doubt,
  • dis quiet,
  • in-decisions,
  • in-decision,
  • re monstrance,
  • fore boding,
  • un-certainties,
  • in decisions,
  • mis giving,
  • un-ease,
  • mis-trust,
  • in decision,
  • fore bodings,
  • in securities,
  • re-monstrances,
  • mis trusts,
  • re monstrances,
  • un-eases,
  • un certainty,
  • un certainties,
  • mis-doubts,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • mis trust,
  • pre sentiments,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • dis-quiet.
  • regret (noun)
  • self-accusation,
  • self-disgust,
  • lamentation.
  • remorse (noun)
  • re morse,
  • re-morse,
  • re morses,
  • pangs conscience,
  • re-morses.
  • repentance (noun)
  • sorrinesses.
  • scruple (noun)
  • Reluctancy,
  • reconsiderations,
  • reconsideration.
  • shame (noun)
  • skeleton in cupboard,
  • Pudency,
  • shamefacedness,
  • stupefaction,
  • loss of face,
  • skeleton in the cupboard.
  • solicitude (noun)
  • considerateness,
  • tender loving care.
  • uneasiness (noun)
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis beliefs,
  • un easinesses,
  • dis-belief,
  • dis pleasure,
  • in-quietudes,
  • dis-content,
  • un-rest,
  • in-stabilities,
  • dis contents,
  • in quietudes,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis pleasures,
  • un easiness,
  • in quietude,
  • in stability,
  • in stabilities,
  • in-stability,
  • queasinesses,
  • dis-beliefs,
  • dis content,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-contents,
  • in-quietude,
  • un rest,
  • un-rests,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis belief,
  • dyspathies.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • feeling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Penitency,
  • remorsefulness.
  •
  • misgiving,
  • scruple,
  • attrition.
  • Other relevant words:
  • foundation,
  • beat back,
  • generator,
  • right hand,
  • abrasion,
  • chastity,
  • performance,
  • touch on,
  • bitterly,
  • smash,
  • pertain,
  • requiem,
  • allow,
  • shine,
  • litigate,
  • hesitate,
  • epitope,
  • abasement,
  • blistering,
  • rap,
  • prick,
  • propitiation,
  • downhearted,
  • acerb,
  • feel for,
  • contrite,
  • intuitive feeling,
  • collar,
  • proficient,
  • hold,
  • beef cattle,
  • glumness,
  • right wing,
  • solicitousness,
  • carrying out,
  • fearfulness,
  • have,
  • repercussion,
  • necrosis,
  • agent,
  • murder,
  • acrid,
  • repulse,
  • elegy,
  • military action,
  • make,
  • marching,
  • confrontation,
  • coevals,
  • downcast,
  • etymon,
  • rightfield,
  • induce,
  • take up,
  • grudge,
  • inducement,
  • legal action,
  • roar,
  • trouble,
  • border district,
  • broker,
  • boeuf,
  • have to do with,
  • bumble,
  • impinge on,
  • depressed,
  • melancholic,
  • disquiet,
  • ascendent,
  • substitute,
  • bitingly,
  • bound,
  • acerbity,
  • determiner,
  • murmuring,
  • dreary,
  • coerce,
  • butt,
  • carry through,
  • grieve,
  • quetch,
  • break,
  • effort,
  • campaign,
  • charge,
  • except,
  • bemoan,
  • curtilage,
  • indisposition,
  • reverberate,
  • disavowal,
  • incitement,
  • notion,
  • cornerstone,
  • bewail,
  • lamentable,
  • resile,
  • correctitude,
  • come across,
  • determining factor,
  • in effect,
  • ruthfulness,
  • dissonance,
  • edge,
  • come to,
  • action mechanism,
  • dependable,
  • glooming,
  • backbite,
  • reputability,
  • near,
  • lawsuit,
  • sexual morality,
  • stimulant,
  • mental reservation,
  • full,
  • soreness,
  • chance on,
  • stirring,
  • self-hatred,
  • factor out,
  • rethink,
  • tactile sensation,
  • respectable,
  • writ of execution,
  • driving force,
  • business concern,
  • remorseful,
  • kick back,
  • force out,
  • acid,
  • rootage,
  • catch,
  • gloominess,
  • border,
  • proper,
  • creation,
  • chagrin,
  • flop,
  • force-out,
  • obsession,
  • disgrace,
  • elision,
  • slaying,
  • motivation,
  • pain,
  • implementation,
  • sorry,
  • reservoir,
  • case,
  • condole with,
  • brainchild,
  • military unit,
  • penalisation,
  • dread,
  • pressure,
  • grim,
  • opponent,
  • spirit,
  • whole,
  • tug,
  • enemy,
  • bounce,
  • edginess,
  • just,
  • lugubriousness,
  • disfavour,
  • tactual sensation,
  • take issue,
  • impress,
  • vitriolic,
  • motor,
  • self-abnegation,
  • sense of right and wrong,
  • germ,
  • squinch,
  • somberness,
  • founding,
  • gall,
  • safe,
  • down,
  • adjoin,
  • labour,
  • divisor,
  • inception,
  • cunt,
  • suspension,
  • moral sense,
  • pinch,
  • touch,
  • carrying into action,
  • fall,
  • self-distrust,
  • accomplish,
  • moral excellence,
  • causal agency,
  • abnegation,
  • properness,
  • decently,
  • bellyache,
  • induction,
  • wholly,
  • interest,
  • breathing in,
  • thrill,
  • incentive,
  • suspiciousness,
  • impression,
  • sombreness,
  • walk out,
  • decent,
  • instruction execution,
  • ram,
  • demonstrate,
  • malaise,
  • grogginess,
  • dishonor,
  • taciturnity,
  • natural process,
  • bang,
  • touch sensation,
  • parkway,
  • screech,
  • question,
  • movement,
  • gnarl,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • executing,
  • take a hop,
  • take exception,
  • torment,
  • murmur,
  • yard,
  • book,
  • plain,
  • hale,
  • expert,
  • driving,
  • force back,
  • acrimonious,
  • informant,
  • arrest,
  • venerate,
  • complain,
  • sickness,
  • grumbling,
  • violence,
  • motivative,
  • excise,
  • instauration,
  • penalization,
  • work stoppage,
  • inquietude,
  • beneficial,
  • croak,
  • opposite,
  • humanistic discipline,
  • honest,
  • oppositeness,
  • incertitude,
  • happen upon,
  • effect,
  • refer,
  • wedge,
  • mistrust,
  • private road,
  • storm,
  • gloomful,
  • discover,
  • pureness,
  • doubtfulness,
  • self-abasement,
  • assume,
  • merit,
  • guiltiness,
  • exchange,
  • repent,
  • flavor,
  • antigenic determinant,
  • caustic,
  • mutter,
  • military force,
  • satisfaction,
  • growl,
  • driveway,
  • differ,
  • base,
  • sinking,
  • bowl over,
  • sinlessness,
  • threnody,
  • ground,
  • coercion,
  • qualification,
  • excruciation,
  • sue,
  • correctly,
  • coin,
  • intermit,
  • initiation,
  • capital punishment,
  • painstakingness,
  • fundament,
  • personnel,
  • self-mortification,
  • summoning,
  • honor,
  • sulfurous,
  • score,
  • stutter,
  • acrimony,
  • corrasion,
  • aspiration,
  • hunch,
  • upright,
  • somber,
  • irritation,
  • defence,
  • butt against,
  • compassionate,
  • root word,
  • need,
  • stem,
  • business organization,
  • rancor,
  • shrink,
  • collide with,
  • drear,
  • low-spirited,
  • inhalation,
  • take,
  • parade,
  • fall upon,
  • taunt,
  • drab,
  • abashment,
  • all,
  • manifestation,
  • rancour,
  • acerbic,
  • unspoilt,
  • abut,
  • kicking,
  • afterthought,
  • commodity,
  • deplore,
  • execution of instrument,
  • opinion,
  • heartbreak,
  • dispute,
  • resistance,
  • ten-strike,
  • wrawl,
  • dirge,
  • in force,
  • quail,
  • savvy,
  • disfavor,
  • innovation,
  • military reserve,
  • coronach,
  • occupy,
  • ride,
  • anxiousness,
  • aim,
  • honorable,
  • totally,
  • overplus,
  • meticulousness,
  • sealed,
  • holler,
  • ignominy,
  • motivating,
  • well,
  • grinding,
  • skillful,
  • business,
  • stimulate,
  • feel,
  • multiplication,
  • skreak,
  • presentation,
  • commiseration,
  • belief,
  • borderland,
  • evidence,
  • impel,
  • seed,
  • dear,
  • crab,
  • yawl,
  • right-hand,
  • precariousness,
  • razz,
  • ululation,
  • gainsay,
  • flush,
  • wavering,
  • plethora,
  • rallying,
  • shrinkage,
  • look,
  • sphacelus,
  • summon,
  • ill,
  • take root,
  • cringe,
  • low,
  • interruption,
  • tantalise,
  • propagation,
  • deplorable,
  • exclusion,
  • rumble,
  • revere,
  • correct,
  • keen,
  • resist,
  • sombre,
  • author,
  • intermission,
  • muttering,
  • skreigh,
  • incitation,
  • genesis,
  • fright,
  • restlessness,
  • screak,
  • come up,
  • skeleton,
  • ruthful,
  • solution,
  • discernment,
  • causa,
  • headache,
  • punishment,
  • self-doubt,
  • jaundice,
  • groundwork,
  • repel,
  • mournfulness,
  • unity,
  • stumble,
  • nip,
  • rumbling,
  • reference,
  • leniency,
  • scratch,
  • backfire,
  • settle,
  • pathos,
  • crusade,
  • deplorably,
  • discrepancy,
  • component,
  • justly,
  • ululate,
  • rag,
  • unhappiness,
  • whiteness,
  • demo,
  • innocence,
  • unease,
  • chance upon,
  • lamentably,
  • ricochet,
  • mourning,
  • radical,
  • spring,
  • trade good,
  • plaint,
  • ailment,
  • backlash,
  • tenderness,
  • resentment,
  • semiconsciousness,
  • virulent,
  • vexation,
  • dissension,
  • distrust,
  • woefully,
  • master of architecture,
  • virtuousness,
  • completely,
  • distressing,
  • move,
  • twit,
  • twitch,
  • push,
  • execute,
  • liberal arts,
  • beginning,
  • ripe,
  • consideration,
  • divine guidance,
  • get,
  • rightfulness,
  • stupor,
  • ingredient,
  • effective,
  • smasher,
  • vex,
  • attaint,
  • secure,
  • affect,
  • hurt,
  • awe,
  • superfluity,
  • ascendant,
  • flinch,
  • wholeness,
  • gangrene,
  • disquietude,
  • veneration,
  • military group,
  • soundly,
  • thoroughly,
  • mint,
  • factor in,
  • vacillation,
  • force play,
  • flabbergast,
  • sound off,
  • natural action,
  • compensate,
  • tlc,
  • reason,
  • mighty,
  • dislike,
  • wince,
  • set aside,
  • element,
  • blue,
  • action at law,
  • dubiousness,
  • divergence,
  • redress,
  • salutary,
  • foeman,
  • come upon,
  • sure,
  • down in the mouth,
  • mobilize,
  • fulfil,
  • skilful,
  • booking,
  • determinative,
  • taking into custody,
  • self-renunciation,
  • meticulosity,
  • altogether,
  • marching music,
  • second-stringer,
  • variance,
  • stammer,
  • light upon,
  • stab,
  • bait,
  • appropriate,
  • tease,
  • motif,
  • call up,
  • mass meeting,
  • stockpile,
  • butt on,
  • torture,
  • compassionateness,
  • reverence,
  • uncertainness,
  • strickle,
  • thrust,
  • piercingly,
  • aright,
  • dingy,
  • expunge,
  • kvetch,
  • one,
  • strength,
  • wee small voice,
  • understanding,
  • input,
  • irresistible impulse,
  • tantalize,
  • dispirited,
  • intake,
  • dishonour,
  • backlog,
  • fellow feeling,
  • right on,
  • intuition,
  • relate,
  • earmark,
  • tone,
  • gene,
  • properly,
  • woefulness,
  • power,
  • cistron,
  • tap,
  • attain,
  • presentment,
  • dark,
  • labor,
  • activeness,
  • deciding,
  • black bile,
  • reticence,
  • sulphurous,
  • push back,
  • unspoiled,
  • modestness,
  • sheepishness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • flavour,
  • beat up,
  • arts,
  • defense,
  • footing,
  • howling,
  • foe,
  • penitentially,
  • veracious,
  • rectify,
  • repentantly,
  • muster up,
  • boot,
  • run into,
  • adept,
  • rootle,
  • ancestor,
  • tweet,
  • causal factor,
  • waver,
  • rout,
  • suffering,
  • drum up,
  • rebound,
  • wail,
  • yowl,
  • tartness,
  • smell,
  • funk,
  • serious,
  • paltriness,
  • biting,
  • carry out,
  • process,
  • death penalty,
  • entirely,
  • grouch,
  • dubiety,
  • monstrance,
  • institution,
  • theme,
  • disconsolate,
  • care,
  • squeeze,
  • activity,
  • exhibit,
  • suit,
  • bear on,
  • brokenheartedness,
  • forcefulness,
  • mightily,
  • lenience,
  • honour,
  • origin,
  • skeleton in the closet,
  • disagree,
  • sympathize with,
  • practiced,
  • causal agent,
  • thorniness,
  • steady down,
  • mar,
  • uncomfortableness,
  • yammer,
  • settle down,
  • aggravation,
  • fulfill,
  • sting,
  • rush,
  • detrition,
  • antecedent,
  • determining,
  • powerful,
  • sulky,
  • herb of grace,
  • stimulation,
  • give up,
  • unhappily,
  • mobilise,
  • introduction,
  • sound,
  • scold,
  • constituent,
  • mildness,
  • contemporaries,
  • right field,
  • dismal,
  • estimable,
  • self-denial,
  • muster,
  • sultan of swat,
  • marchland,
  • pitiful.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • grouse,
  • disapproval,
  • guilt,
  • strike,
  • remonstrance,
  • challenge,
  • contrition,
  • concern,
  • Remonstration,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • demonstration,
  • anxiety,
  • sit-in,
  • unwillingness,
  • sorrow,
  • throes,
  • self-reproof,
  • disagreement,
  • shrinking,
  • diffidence,
  • punctiliousness,
  • grief,
  • voice of conscience,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • falter,
  • doubt,
  • recoil,
  • pangs,
  • regretfulness,
  • beef,
  • ruefulness,
  • agony,
  • grievance,
  • squeamishness,
  • bad conscience,
  • howl,
  • qualmishness,
  • sympathy,
  • second thoughts,
  • demur,
  • hesitancy,
  • expostulation,
  • gripe,
  • embarrassment,
  • fear,
  • guilty conscience,
  • grumble,
  • funny feeling,
  • qualms,
  • complaint,
  • scrupulousness,
  • conscientiousness,
  • suspicion,
  • uncertainty,
  • better self,
  • indignation meeting,
  • Boggling,
  • bitterness,
  • disclaimer,
  • anguish,
  • nausea,
  • sadness,
  • shyness,
  • objection,
  • faltering,
  • rally,
  • woe,
  • misgivings,
  • protest,
  • sinking feeling,
  • boggle,
  • disinclination,
  • exception,
  • denial,
  • apprehension,
  • boycott,
  • Stickling,
  • demurrer,
  • scruples,
  • worry,
  • march,
  • reserve,
  • ruth,
  • demurral,
  • doubts,
  • twinge,
  • protestation,
  • squawk,
  • self-condemnation,
  • kick,
  • teach-in,
  • Picketing,
  • atonement,
  • bitch,
  • hesitance,
  • pang,
  • dissent,
  • opposition,
  • discomfort,
  • mortification,
  • humiliation,
  • pause,
  • Scrupulosity,
  • second thought,
  • penitently,
  • grievance committee,
  • bashfulness,
  • reluctance,
  • stab of conscience.

Paraphrases for Compunction:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    remorse.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    conscience.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hesitation.

Hypernym for Compunction:

• n.

  • feeling
    guilt trip, repentance, guilt feelings, guilty conscience, guilt, penitence, penance.

Hyponym for Compunction:

• n.

  • feeling
    ruefulness, sorrow, regret, rue.