confessional
/kənˈfɛʃənəl/
adjective
- Relating to or involving the admission of personal thoughts, feelings, or sins.
- The TV show had a confessional segment where contestants shared their true feelings.
- He spoke in a confessional tone, as if unburdening a heavy secret.
- The poet's confessional style made readers feel they knew her intimately.
noun
- A small enclosed booth or room in a church where a priest listens to people confess their sins.
- The church renovated its confessional to make it more accessible.
- She knelt in the confessional and quietly told the priest her sins.
- The old wooden confessional had a carved screen between the priest and the penitent.
- A statement or book in which someone admits to private thoughts or wrongdoings, often in a very open way.
- The celebrity's confessional revealed secrets she had kept for years.
- The blog became a confessional where strangers shared their deepest regrets.
- His latest memoir reads like a long, emotional confessional.