self-reproach
91remorse — noun A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning. Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns …
92guilt — gilt n feelings of culpability esp. for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy: morbid self reproach often manifest in marked preoccupation with the moral correctness of one s behavior <aggressive responses originating in inner guilt… …
93major depressive episode — [DSM IV] a period of two weeks or longer characterized by daily and day long depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in virtually all activities; in children or adolescents the mood may be irritable. Also present is some combination of the …
94repent, regret — These words are near synonyms, but they do have slightly different applications. To repent is to feel sorrow and to engage in self reproach, which is precisely the primary meaning of regret. But to repent is to go a step further: to feel so… …
95pang — Synonyms and related words: ache, aching, acute pain, anguish, bite, blow, boring pain, charley horse, contriteness, contrition, cramp, cramps, crick, cut, darting pain, discomfort, distress, dolor, fulgurant pain, girdle pain, gnawing, grief,… …
96remorse — Synonyms and related words: anxiety, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bitterness, compunction, contriteness, contrition, embarrassment, grief, guilt, guilty conscience, humiliation, mortification, pangs of conscience, penance, penitence,… …
97compunction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. regret, remorse; scruple, twinge. See penitence, doubt. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A sense of guilt or remorse] Syn. remorse, contrition, shame; see regret 1 , repentance , shame 2 . 2. [A twinge of… …
98guilt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fact or sense of commission of wrong Nouns 1. guilt, guiltiness, culpability, chargeability, criminality, improbity, sinfulness (see badness). See accusation. 2. (act of doing wrong) misconduct,… …
99contrition — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. penitence, remorse, sorrow; see penance 1 , 2 , regret 1 , repentance . See Synonym Study at repentance . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. remorse, repentance, regret, guilt, sorrow, compunction, shame, penitence, self… …
100kick — {{11}}kick (n.) 1520s, from KICK (Cf. kick) (v.). Meaning recoil (of a gun) when fired is from 1826. Meaning surge or fit of pleasure (often as kicks) is from 1941; originally lit., stimulation from liquor or drugs (1844). The kick the fashion is …
