compunctious

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
27
Letters
12

Definition of compunctious

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
    “Come you Spirits, That tend on mortall thoughts, vnſex me here, And fill me from the Crowne to the Toe, top-full Of direſt Crueltie: make thick my blood, Stop vp th’acceſſe, and paſſage to Remorſe, That no compunctious viſitings of Nature Shake my fell purpoſe, nor keepe peace betweene Th’effect, and hit.”

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Etymology

From the stem of compunction + -ous; compare factious. Apparently taken up in modern use from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (see quotation).

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