compunctious
compunctious · more compunctious · most compunctious
Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guiltExhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
Meaning
1 sensesExhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
Origin
From the stem of compunction + -ous; compare factious. Apparently taken up in modern use fFrom the stem of compunction + -ous; compare factious. Apparently taken up in modern use from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (see quotation).
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Forms
more compunctious, most compunctious| Comparative | more compunctious Lesson |
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| Superlative | most compunctious Lesson |
regular
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form