impenitent
To be impenitent is to have no remorse or regrets. Your brother was impenitent when he ate the cupcakes that you had baked for your club fundraiser. Not nice.
The word repent is hiding in impenitent. When you repent, you regret or feel sorry about something you've done. Impenitent and repent share the Latin root penitire meaning "to regret," but add im- meaning "not" for impenitent and you've got the opposite: "to not regret or repent." A criminal who is impenitent about feels no shame about what he's done.
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not penitent or remorseful
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synonyms:
unremorseful, unrepentant
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unashamed
used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
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unregenerate, unregenerated
not reformed morally or spiritually
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antonyms:
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penitent, repentant
feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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ashamed
feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
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bad, regretful, sorry
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
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contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful
feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
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penitential, penitentiary
showing or constituting penance
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unashamed
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impervious to moral persuasion
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synonyms:
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unregenerate, unregenerated
not reformed morally or spiritually
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unregenerate, unregenerated
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Vocabulary lists containing impenitent
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