Usually means: Feeling regretful for one's actions.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word repentant:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. repentant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. repentant: Merriam-Webster
  3. repentant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. repentant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. repentant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. repentant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Repentant, repentant: Wordnik
  8. repentant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. repentant: Wiktionary
  10. repentant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. repentant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Repentant, repentant: Dictionary.com
  13. Repentant, The Repentant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Repentant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. repentant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. repentant: Rhymezone
  17. Repentant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. repentant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. repentant: FreeDictionary.org
  20. repentant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. repentant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repentant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repentant: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repentant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See repentantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing.
noun:  One who repents; a penitent.

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