apologetic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
apologetic
    adj 1: offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an
           apologetic manner" [syn: {apologetic}, {excusatory}]
           [ant: {unapologetic}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Apologetic \A*pol`o*get"ic\, Apologetical \A*pol`o*get"ic*al\,
   a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to speak in defense of; ? from + ? speech, ?
   to say, to speak. See {Logic}.]
   Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense,
   or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic
   essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone."
   --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "apologetic":
      abject, apologia, ascetic, atoning, cleansing, compensational,
      compensatory, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, defense,
      excusatory, excusing, expiatory, extenuating, extenuative, humble,
      humbled, justification, justificatory, justifying, lustral,
      lustrational, lustrative, melted, palliative, penitent,
      penitential, penitentiary, piacular, propitiatory, purgative,
      purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming,
      redemptive, redressing, refuting, regretful, rehabilitative,
      remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting,
      restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful,
      satisfactional, sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched,
      vindicative, vindicatory
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