Ashamed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feeling shame or guilt: Are you ashamed for having lied?
  • adj. Feeling inferior, inadequate, or embarrassed: ashamed of my torn coat.
  • adj. Reluctant through fear of humiliation or shame: ashamed to ask for help.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Feeling shame or guilt.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of ashame.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Affected or touched by shame; abashed or confused by guilt or a conviction of some wrong action, indecorous conduct, or other impropriety: hardly used attributively: followed by of, or by a dependent clause with that.
  • Reluctant through fear of shame: followed by an infinitive: as, I am ashamed to offer it, it is so little.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
  • Equivalent
    discredited    sheepish    embarrassed    hangdog    guilty    shamefaced    disgraced    mortified    shamed    dishonored   
    Antonym
    proud   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abashed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acclaimed    aimed    blamed    claimed    declaimed    defamed    disclaimed    exclaimed    famed    flamed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    afraid    depress    unable    apprehensive    guilty    anxious    glad    dissatisfied    abashed    Embarrass