Synonyms and related words :
abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed, expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, regretful, remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful, satisfactional, sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched