apologetic
adjective
[ əpɒləˈdʒɛtɪk ]
• expressing or showing regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure.
• "she was very apologetic about the whole incident"
Similar:
regretful,
full of regret,
sorry,
contrite,
remorseful,
penitent,
repentant,
rueful,
deprecatory,
self-reproachful,
conscience-stricken,
red-faced,
shamefaced,
sheepish,
hangdog,
ashamed,
in sackcloth and ashes,
compunctious,
• constituting a formal defence or justification of a theory or doctrine.
• "the apologetic proposition that production for profit is the same thing as production for need"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun denoting a formal justification): from French apologétique or late Latin apologeticus, from Greek apologētikos, from apologeisthei ‘speak in one's own defence’, from apologia (see apology). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.
