~ (about / for sth) feeling or showing that you are sorry for doing sth wrong or for causing a problem:
'Sorry,' she said, with an apologetic smile. * They were very apologetic about the trouble they'd caused.
apologetically adverb:
'I'm sorry I'm late,' he murmured apologetically.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is apologetic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, apologetic is tagged as adjective.
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