Synonyms for Contrition:

• n.

  •attrition (noun)
  • attrition.
  •compunction (noun)
  • mis giving,
  • stab conscience,
  • mis-giving.
  •contrition (noun)
  • contriteness.
  •guilt (noun)
  • criminalities,
  • malefactions,
  • Malefaction,
  • blameworthiness,
  • self-reproach,
  • criminality,
  • Peccability,
  • sinfulness,
  • self-condemnation,
  • answerability.
  •humility (noun)
  • humility,
  • modesty,
  • unpretentiousness,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • selflessness,
  • plainness,
  • unassumingness,
  • mildness,
  • submissiveness,
  • homeliness,
  • sheepishness,
  • meekness,
  • humbleness.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • punctiliousness,
  • guilt,
  • regret,
  • self-flagellation,
  • repentance,
  • compunction,
  • sorriness,
  • pangs of conscience,
  • penance,
  • sackcloth and ashes,
  • penalty,
  • shrift,
  • penitence,
  • stab of conscience,
  • shrifts,
  • rue,
  • expiation,
  • shame,
  • remorse.
  •penance (noun)
  • sackcloth ashes,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • expiations,
  • selfflagellation,
  • self-flagellations,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • self flagellations,
  • self flagellation,
  • selfflagellations.
  •penitence (noun)
  • study at repentance,
  • self-castigation.
  •regret (noun)
  • grief,
  • lamentation,
  • sorrow,
  • heartache,
  • qualm.
  •remorse (noun)
  • pangs conscience,
  • re morses,
  • re-morses,
  • re morse,
  • re-morse.
  •repentance (noun)
  • sorrinesses.
  •shame (noun)
  • skeleton in cupboard,
  • self-reproof,
  • Pudency,
  • loss of face,
  • skeleton in the cupboard,
  • stupefaction.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • feeling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Penitency,
  • remorsefulness.
  •
  • confession.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flub,
  • grim,
  • harshness,
  • answerableness,
  • muddied,
  • reprehensible,
  • agony,
  • contraband,
  • muffled,
  • plunder,
  • fixture,
  • do-or-die,
  • pecker,
  • exempt,
  • gentleness,
  • mute,
  • grazing,
  • bollix up,
  • perspicuity,
  • labour,
  • feel,
  • lugubriousness,
  • mention,
  • mark,
  • low-toned,
  • uncheerful,
  • get at,
  • chagrin,
  • distress,
  • low-spirited,
  • rape,
  • indulge,
  • wail,
  • misfortunate,
  • miserable,
  • gloominess,
  • gag,
  • piteous,
  • clog,
  • ignominious,
  • benumb,
  • shadow,
  • sour,
  • flavor,
  • vacillation,
  • pass away,
  • broken,
  • lettuce,
  • bite,
  • lucre,
  • fumble,
  • trouble oneself,
  • dim,
  • apologise,
  • condemnable,
  • deflower,
  • inscribe,
  • donkeywork,
  • tone,
  • trouble,
  • sin,
  • repair,
  • subduedness,
  • let off,
  • drear,
  • suspicion,
  • waver,
  • drudgery,
  • reference,
  • obtuse,
  • dolor,
  • melanize,
  • engrave,
  • tactile sensation,
  • damages,
  • gravel,
  • spoilage,
  • dire,
  • give-up the ghost,
  • genuflect,
  • cocker,
  • goad,
  • eat at,
  • disoblige,
  • cock,
  • down,
  • darkness,
  • depleted,
  • reserve,
  • sob,
  • meticulousness,
  • dashing hopes,
  • no-good,
  • cocksucker,
  • chicken feed,
  • beg off,
  • grogginess,
  • heartbreak,
  • fret,
  • wipe,
  • get to,
  • perturbing,
  • vitiate,
  • redress,
  • raunchy,
  • rough water,
  • dolourous,
  • expunge,
  • blow,
  • sugar,
  • bleak,
  • shit,
  • corrade,
  • rowdiness,
  • alibi,
  • moolah,
  • labor,
  • unease,
  • humbled,
  • glowering,
  • pitiable,
  • plethora,
  • silly,
  • hesitancy,
  • rub down,
  • anxiousness,
  • ho-hum,
  • night,
  • first gear,
  • letdown,
  • glum,
  • mash,
  • blunt,
  • plaint,
  • total darkness,
  • bray,
  • despairing,
  • pathos,
  • downhearted,
  • moody,
  • squeamishness,
  • self-justification,
  • gall,
  • prickle,
  • clash,
  • down in the mouth,
  • weighty,
  • guilt feelings,
  • indemnification,
  • come up,
  • browse,
  • dowdiness,
  • foul,
  • herb of grace,
  • ruthfulness,
  • grate,
  • roil,
  • effort,
  • repentantly,
  • bad,
  • discommode,
  • drudge,
  • sense of right and wrong,
  • crease,
  • hang-up,
  • cabbage,
  • african-american,
  • flavour,
  • sphacelus,
  • exit,
  • dent,
  • starting line,
  • negroid,
  • low gear,
  • sting,
  • toil,
  • worrying,
  • dick,
  • modest,
  • plodding,
  • scrub,
  • knead,
  • obscureness,
  • pitting,
  • mend,
  • fateful,
  • dig,
  • crunch,
  • sculpt,
  • melancholic,
  • hassle,
  • fluff,
  • sepulchral,
  • expire,
  • pitch-dark,
  • baby,
  • fuck up,
  • hapless,
  • irritation,
  • superfluity,
  • wearing away,
  • serious,
  • craunch,
  • disinclination,
  • mourning,
  • clams,
  • asphyxiate,
  • scrag,
  • olive drab,
  • frustrate,
  • dense,
  • leniency,
  • impair,
  • self-abasement,
  • excruciation,
  • somber,
  • dough,
  • screw up,
  • scratching,
  • putz,
  • clog up,
  • scummy,
  • rowdyism,
  • back up,
  • bollocks,
  • numb,
  • drop dead,
  • go bad,
  • mending,
  • queer,
  • muff,
  • wearisome,
  • saturnine,
  • moil,
  • shaft,
  • intuitive feeling,
  • pop off,
  • buy the farm,
  • wonk,
  • gangrene,
  • torture,
  • grungy,
  • unworthy,
  • apologia,
  • wickedness,
  • violate,
  • vex,
  • bollix,
  • botch up,
  • gloomful,
  • croak,
  • muck up,
  • cicatrix,
  • rueful,
  • mournful,
  • infliction,
  • dangerous,
  • pasture,
  • lightlessness,
  • choke coil,
  • decease,
  • indisposition,
  • corrupt,
  • dinero,
  • bilk,
  • glooming,
  • devil,
  • falter,
  • cosset,
  • featherbed,
  • ignominiousness,
  • travail,
  • sober,
  • fatal,
  • weeping,
  • choking coil,
  • tearful,
  • despoilation,
  • execrable,
  • lenience,
  • scruples,
  • scrape up,
  • good-for-naught,
  • sulky,
  • touch,
  • ignominy,
  • pitch-black,
  • rub off,
  • troubling,
  • stab,
  • mill,
  • kowtow,
  • botch,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • worthless,
  • self-accusation,
  • overplus,
  • wavering,
  • scrupulousness,
  • foul up,
  • olive-drab,
  • self-sacrifice,
  • fag,
  • damp,
  • life-threatening,
  • altruism,
  • prick up,
  • slimy,
  • stifle,
  • eat away,
  • section,
  • moral sense,
  • criminalness,
  • apprehension,
  • black bile,
  • swot,
  • kale,
  • blacken,
  • bobble,
  • simoleons,
  • brokenheartedness,
  • lowly,
  • calamitous,
  • citation,
  • woeful,
  • acrimony,
  • cancel,
  • ball up,
  • despicable,
  • son of a bitch,
  • inconvenience oneself,
  • nighttime,
  • gnaw at,
  • commiseration,
  • sultan of swat,
  • relieve,
  • whoreson,
  • slow,
  • crop,
  • pelf,
  • grubby,
  • sombre,
  • mistrust,
  • dampen,
  • rancour,
  • bread,
  • lenity,
  • baffle,
  • resentment,
  • decry,
  • tactual sensation,
  • fuss,
  • bitter,
  • botheration,
  • melanise,
  • distrust,
  • foil,
  • pamper,
  • mordant,
  • snuff it,
  • skin,
  • pity,
  • torment,
  • fray,
  • scribble,
  • pain in the neck,
  • mar,
  • disgrace,
  • perish,
  • sincerity,
  • acknowledgement,
  • sullen,
  • reprobate,
  • kick the bucket,
  • humble,
  • negro,
  • annoyance,
  • spoilation,
  • disturbing,
  • belief,
  • crushed,
  • motherfucker,
  • clemency,
  • blackness,
  • propitiation,
  • skeleton in the closet,
  • scratch up,
  • leaden,
  • tool,
  • shekels,
  • pitiful,
  • quotation,
  • deadening,
  • pulverization,
  • solemn,
  • thorniness,
  • loot,
  • wampum,
  • shameful,
  • softness,
  • mother fucker,
  • meticulosity,
  • blue,
  • no-account,
  • semiconsciousness,
  • congest,
  • abasement,
  • look,
  • soreness,
  • condemn,
  • resin,
  • paltriness,
  • sculpture,
  • cicatrice,
  • cock up,
  • objurgate,
  • range,
  • low-pitched,
  • nettle,
  • crudeness,
  • modestness,
  • acerbity,
  • condone,
  • uneasiness,
  • nark,
  • spirit,
  • surgical incision,
  • woefulness,
  • itch,
  • excise,
  • dweeb,
  • dour,
  • severe,
  • obscure,
  • softened,
  • throttle,
  • necrosis,
  • first,
  • cranch,
  • disconsolate,
  • flagitious,
  • opinion,
  • sinister,
  • lachrymose,
  • pass,
  • lamentable,
  • unhappiness,
  • disgraceful,
  • indentation,
  • fixing,
  • scrawl,
  • cash in one's chips,
  • culpableness,
  • ridiculous,
  • drabness,
  • inglorious,
  • scratch line,
  • criminal,
  • pain in the ass,
  • choppiness,
  • heartrending,
  • dispirited,
  • coddle,
  • lolly,
  • depression,
  • cross,
  • muted,
  • sedate,
  • unimportance,
  • small,
  • bungle,
  • rake,
  • put out,
  • tomb,
  • sluggish,
  • dickhead,
  • declination,
  • pall,
  • poor,
  • pardon,
  • choke off,
  • suffocate,
  • variability,
  • pain,
  • nerd,
  • begrimed,
  • spoiling,
  • rationalise,
  • tedious,
  • louse up,
  • spoliation,
  • humiliated,
  • notion,
  • rationalize,
  • dirty,
  • ugly,
  • conk,
  • despoliation,
  • jaundice,
  • eating away,
  • moo,
  • blackened,
  • dumb,
  • despoil,
  • indemnity,
  • heartbreaking,
  • stupor,
  • pit,
  • hitch,
  • slit,
  • contrition,
  • gelt,
  • satisfaction,
  • atrocious,
  • uncomfortableness,
  • morose,
  • tiresome,
  • penalization,
  • sweat,
  • guilt trip,
  • reluctance,
  • rag,
  • recognition,
  • wear away,
  • cite,
  • grave accent,
  • dishonour,
  • wearing,
  • comminute,
  • asshole,
  • start,
  • criminalism,
  • boring,
  • cacography,
  • smell,
  • distressful,
  • die,
  • culpability,
  • no-count,
  • smutty,
  • monstrous,
  • explain,
  • exculpation,
  • guiltiness,
  • abject,
  • attaint,
  • pock,
  • thwart,
  • perspicuousness,
  • disastrous,
  • gnaw,
  • fix,
  • corroding,
  • pricking,
  • opprobrious,
  • vicious,
  • scotch,
  • penitentially,
  • restitution,
  • pitch blackness,
  • hurt,
  • apologize,
  • skeleton,
  • abrase,
  • bootleg,
  • go,
  • tone down,
  • submission,
  • purge,
  • heroic,
  • faltering,
  • smuggled,
  • disgracefulness,
  • dishonor,
  • joseph black,
  • call off,
  • corrosion,
  • raggedness,
  • grieve,
  • black-market,
  • credit,
  • despoilment,
  • scurvy,
  • heavy,
  • pulverisation,
  • worrisome,
  • vile,
  • eroding,
  • rancor,
  • flush,
  • touch sensation,
  • impenitency,
  • bumble,
  • exertion,
  • chafe,
  • eat into,
  • grimy,
  • ruthful,
  • low-down,
  • disorderliness,
  • thudding,
  • repent,
  • bollocks up,
  • tartness,
  • muddy,
  • mishandle,
  • meritless,
  • twinge,
  • muffle,
  • mollycoddle,
  • mess up,
  • lament,
  • impression,
  • benighted,
  • incommode,
  • queasiness,
  • penalisation,
  • inconvenience,
  • snag,
  • strike,
  • bastard,
  • strangle,
  • accountability.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • excoriate,
  • friction,
  • breast-beating,
  • elbow grease,
  • penitently,
  • dejected,
  • wretched,
  • deplorable,
  • regrets,
  • scar,
  • shamefacedness,
  • grievous,
  • dolorous,
  • disappointment,
  • reparation,
  • amends,
  • sorry,
  • dingy,
  • Compunctious,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • ayenbite of inwit,
  • annoy,
  • conscience-stricken,
  • dull,
  • atonement,
  • doleful,
  • downcast,
  • choke,
  • rile,
  • erode,
  • rankle,
  • regretfulness,
  • funereal,
  • Irrepentance,
  • sad,
  • misgiving,
  • mortification,
  • humiliation,
  • desperate,
  • woe,
  • impenitence,
  • mournfulness,
  • scruple,
  • depressed,
  • second thoughts,
  • excoriation,
  • massage,
  • pathetic,
  • hesitation,
  • abject apology,
  • black,
  • Brokenness,
  • Regretting,
  • embarrassment,
  • distressing,
  • graze,
  • contrite,
  • wistfulness,
  • remorseful,
  • ruefulness,
  • rubbing,
  • punishment,
  • bother,
  • Limature,
  • discomfort,
  • Apologies,
  • concave,
  • incision,
  • scour,
  • Frication,
  • ruth,
  • guilty conscience,
  • malaise,
  • scrape,
  • cheerless,
  • prick,
  • unevenness,
  • Arrosion,
  • dreary,
  • mea culpa,
  • dismal,
  • self-punishment,
  • dolour,
  • self-mortification,
  • melancholy,
  • shamefulness,
  • anxiety,
  • detrition,
  • abrasion,
  • recusance,
  • pang,
  • low,
  • abrade,
  • excuse,
  • acknowledgment,
  • roughness,
  • bad conscience,
  • conscience,
  • suffering,
  • grave,
  • dark,
  • depressing,
  • repining,
  • bitterness,
  • drab,
  • spoil,
  • irritate,
  • rub,
  • erosion,
  • anguish,
  • scratch,
  • scraping,
  • grind,
  • forlorn,
  • rosin,
  • gloomy,
  • sadness,
  • apology,
  • Confrication,
  • shamefastness,
  • Affriction,
  • regretful.

Paraphrases for Contrition:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    remorse.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    repentance, regret.

Antonyms for Contrition:

• n.

  • regret
    indifference, happiness, hurtfulness, meanness.
  • Other antonyms:
    hardness, self-complacency, remorselessness, approval, stubbornness, obduracy, comfort, obstinacy, complacency, content, impenitence, self-congratulation.

Homophones for Contrition:

• contortion.