compunction | Definition of compunction

Synonyms and Antonyms of compunction

an uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to do

throughout her school years she cheated without compunction

Synonyms of compunction

misgiving, qualm, scruple

Words Related to compunction

distrust, doubt, dubiety, incertitude, misdoubt, mistrust, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainness, uncertainty

qualmishness, unease, uneasiness

reluctance, unwillingness

demur, fuss, objection, protest, question, remonstrance

aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness

guilt, regret, remorse, self-reproach, shame

contrition, penitence, repentance

Near Antonyms of compunction

aplomb, assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness