ADJECTIVE | all | apologetic, excusatory | offering or expressing apology |
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Sounds | ahpaa.lahjheh'tihk | |
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Rhymes | academic ... Zurich: 733 rhymes with ihk... |
Meaning | offering or expressing apology. | |
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Synonym | excusatory | |
Narrower | defensive, justificative, justificatory | attempting to justify or defend in speech / speech or writing |
self-deprecating | conscious of your own shortcomings | |
Opposite | unapologetic | Unwilling to make or express an apology |
Spanish | apologético | |
Catalan | apologètic | |
Nouns | apology | an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone |
apology | a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly | |
Adverbs | apologetically | in an apologetic manner |
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