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UNREPENTANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unrepentant mean? 

UNREPENTANT (adjective)
  The adjective UNREPENTANT has 2 senses:

1. not penitent or remorsefulplay

2. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoingplay

  Familiarity information: UNREPENTANT used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNREPENTANT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not penitent or remorseful

Synonyms:

impenitent; unremorseful; unrepentant

Also:

unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)

unregenerate; unregenerated (not reformed morally or spiritually)

Antonym:

repentant (feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

Synonyms:

cussed; obdurate; obstinate; unrepentant

Similar:

unregenerate; unregenerated (not reformed morally or spiritually)


 Context examples 


"Hans!" she would cry, "wake up!" and he would come to a recollection of himself, startled and shamefaced and unrepentant.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The golden year was dying as it had lived, a beautiful and unrepentant voluptuary, and reminiscent rapture and content freighted heavily the air.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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