| 单词 | compunction |
| 释义 | compunction (once / 2656 pages) n When you feel compunction you feel very, very sorry, usually for something you did to hurt someone or mess something up. When you feel no compunction, you're not at all sorry. The noun compunction comes from the Latin verb compungere, meaning “prick sharply.” When you feel compunction, you feel a sharp prick of your conscience. The word compunction is often used in the negative in phrases like “without compunction” or "no compunction." You might say that the burglar acted without compunction when he stole your baseball card collection. WORD FAMILYcompunction: compunctions USAGE EXAMPLESIn an interview in March, he had no compunction about threatening the kingdom’s survivability. Seattle Times(Nov 09, 2016) The military dictators of the 1970s had little compunction about flooding vast areas of forest and displacing thousands of families. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) Still, the compunction to throw open every window — to insist that all secrets are bad and that transparency is always good — has an obvious cost. Washington Post(Oct 24, 2016) n a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) Syn|Hypo|Hyper remorse, self-reproach guilt, guilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty conscience remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense penance, penitence, repentanceremorse for your past conduct survivor guilta deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrow sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment |
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