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/ˈsəʊlsəːtʃɪŋ/ · adjective
Involving probing introspection, or a critical consideration of one's conscience, especially motives and values..
Fortune had showered upon him gifts unlooked for; had enabled him, had he been blessed with prudence, to keep the path where he could have been free from ostentatious obligation, on the one hand, and soul searching mortification on the other: but, like an improvident spendthrift, he had lavished away in the fever of indiscretion, the gifts she had bestowed with so liberal a hand; […]
His face is fair, rather oval, his eye dark, soft and bashful, glows with a soul-searching kindness; […]
He [Thomas Shepard] was a soul-searching minister of the gospel. By his death, not only the church and people of Cambridge, but also all New England, sustained a very great loss.
Very simple but very soul-searching was the preparation, but very peremptory was the command to all never to neglect to share in the divinely-instituted sacrament.
Whatever one thinks of [Frederick Campbell] Crews's indictment, the issues he raises represent important challenges to psychoanalysis and should encourage serious, even soulsearching, thought on the part of psychoanalytic adherents.
We should pause, even for a moment, to do a soul-searching exercise before participating in Communion.
The rate of soul-searching articles multiplied after a number of well-established figures lost their jobs in this century's first decade.
After much soul-searching I decided to confess.
Use soul-searching when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soul-searching means Involving probing introspection, or a critical consideration of one's conscience, especially motives and values..
Common synonyms include self-analysis.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Fortune had showered upon him gifts unlooked for; had enabled him, had he been blessed with prudence, to keep the path where he could have been free from ostentatious obligation, on the one hand, and soul searching mortification on the other: but, like an improvident spendthrift, he had lavished away in the fever of indiscretion, the gifts she had bestowed with so liberal a hand; […]
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