apologeticadjective
uk/əˌpɒl.əˈdʒet.ɪk/us/əˌpɑː.ləˈdʒet̬.ɪk/C2 showing that you feel sorry about having caused someone problems or unhappiness:
She was so apologetic about forgetting my birthday it was almost embarrassing.
I hope he was suitably apologetic for breaking your glasses.
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Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excusable
- excuse
- excuse/pardon my French! idiom
- forge
- make it up to sb idiom
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- reconciliation
- repentant
- take sb back
- unrepentant
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apologetically
adverb uk/əˌpɒl.əˈdʒet.ɪ.kəl.i/us/əˌpɑː.ləˈdʒet̬.ɪ.kəl.i/
She smiled apologetically.