Usually means: Not feeling remorse or regret.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word impenitent:

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

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ adjective:  Not penitent; specifically (Christianity), not repenting of one's sins; unrepentant.
▸ noun:  One who is not penitent.

Similar:
unrepentant, unremorseful, unregenerated, unpenitent, nonpenitent, nonrepentant, nonpenitential, impenitible, unrepented, unpenanced, more...

Opposite:
penitent, remorseful, contrite, guilty

Types:
unrepentant, remorseless, unremorseful, obdurate, hardened, more...

Phrases:
Impenitent thief, more...

Adjectives:
wicked, obstinate, wilfully, such, final, hardened, carnal

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Similar:
unrepentant, unremorseful, unregenerated, unpenitent, nonpenitent, nonrepentant, nonpenitential, impenitible, unrepented, unpenanced, more...

Opposite:
penitent, remorseful, contrite, guilty

Types:
unrepentant, remorseless, unremorseful, obdurate, hardened, more...

Phrases:
Impenitent thief, more...

Adjectives:
wicked, obstinate, wilfully, such, final, hardened, carnal



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