Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse;
- Example: "are you ashamed for having lied?"- Example: "felt ashamed of my torn coat"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ashamed \A*shamed"\, a. [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.]
Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a
conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or
impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." --Wyclif.
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All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. --Jer. xvii.
13.
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I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. --Johnson.
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Enough to make us ashamed of our species. --Macaulay.
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An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of
those present. --Darwin.
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Note: Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it
qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the
Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ashamed
adj 1: feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are
you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn
coat" [ant: unashamed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ashamed":
abashed, abject, blushing, chagrined, chapfallen,
conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen,
crushed, discomfited, embarrassed, full of remorse, hangdog,
humbled, humiliated, mean, mortified, out of countenance, penitent,
red-faced, regretful, remorseful, repentant, repining, rueful,
self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing,
self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing,
self-reproaching, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful,
sheepish, sorry, unhappy about, wistful