compunctious
Meaning of compunctious
adjective
- characterized by guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.
compunctious feelings of apprehension
early 17th century: from compunction + -ous.
Information about compunctious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of compunctious
com-punc-tious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- compunctious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with compunctious
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