| 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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