English Explanatory Dictionary

compunctious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.

Word forms

compunctious more compunctious most compunctious compunctuous

Etymology

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

Derived words

compunctiously compunctiousness
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