contrition
(con-tri-tion)
3 syllables
Definition
noun. the feeling of deep sorrow for wrongdoing.
Example Sentence
The politician displayed contrition during the press conference.
More Example Sentences
Contrition can lead to making amends.
Synonyms
Hear It! Say It! Write It!
contrition
Rhymes
- britian
- fission
- mission
- titian
- wishon
- addition
- admission
- ambition
- attrition
- audition
- clinician
- cognition
- commision
- commission
- condition
- contrition
- dentition
- edition
- emission
- fruition
- ignition
- logician
- magician
- mccuistion
- mortician
- munition
- musician
- nutrition
- omission
- optician
- partition
- patrician
- permission
- petition
- physician
- position
- recission
- remission
- rendition
- sedition
- submission
- suspicion
- tactician
- technician
- tradition
- transition
- transmission
- tuition
- volition
- abolition
- acquisition
- admonition
- ammunition
- apparition
- coalition
- competition
- composition
- daffynition
- decommission
- definition
- demolition
- deposition
- dietitian
- disposition
- electrician
- erudition
- exhibition
- expedition
- exposition
- extradition
- fondkommission
- imposition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intermission
- intuition
- malnutrition
- obstetrician
- opposition
- politician
- precondition
- preignition
- premonition
- prohibition
- proposition
- recognition
- recondition
- repetition
- reposition
- requisition
- retransmission
- rhetorician
- statistician
- superstition
- supposition
- academician
- decomposition
- geriatrician
- juxtaposition
- mathematician
- pediatrician
- predisposition
- presupposition
- redefinition
- redeposition
- reimposition
- theoretician