guilt
noun [U] (FEELING) /ɡɪlt/Definition
1. Definition
2. Practise
B2 a feeling of worry or unhappiness that you have because you have done something wrong, such as causing harm to another person: He suffered such feelings of guilt over leaving his children. She remembered with a pang of guilt that she hadn't called her mother.Sadness and regret
(Definition of guilt noun (FEELING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (that) Monday morning feeling idiom
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter adjective (ANGRY)
- bring a lump to your throat idiom
- compunction noun
- grief noun
- guilt trip noun
- guilt-trip verb
- heartache noun
- heartbreak noun
- in all conscience idiom
- mourning noun
- regret noun
- sick to your stomach idiom
- slough noun (SADNESS)
- sorrow noun
- sting noun (HURT)
- turn the clock back idiom
- void noun
Topic:
Sadness and regret
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