ashamed
AdjectiveUS[uh-sheymd]/əˈʃeɪmd/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse“are you ashamed for having lied?”“felt ashamed of my torn coat”Opposite unashamedSimilar guilty, discredited, embarrassed, shamefacedSee also penitent, repentant
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Translations
Adjective feeling shame or guilt
- Spanish
- avergonzado
- French
- honteux
- German
- beschämt
- Italian
- vergognoso
- Portuguese
- envergonhado
- Turkish
- mahcup
- Russian
- присты́женный pristýžennyj
- Arabic
- خَجْلَان ḵajlān
- Chinese
- 惭愧 cánkuì
- Japanese
- 恥ずかしい hazukashii
31 more languages
- Dutch
- beschaamd
- Polish
- zawstydzony
- Swedish
- skamsen
- Greek
- ντροπιασμένος ntropiasménos
- Korean
- 부끄럽다 bukkeureopda
- Indonesian
- malu
- Vietnamese
- xấu hổ
- Hungarian
- szégyenkezik
- Portuguese (PT)
- envergonhado
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 慚愧 cánkuì
- Albanian
- i turpëruar
- Breton
- mezhek
- Catalan
- avergonyit
- Czech
- zahanbený
- Danish
- skamfuld
- Esperanto
- hontanta
- Finnish
- häpeissään
- Georgian
- დარცხვენილი darcxvenili
- Hebrew
- מִתְבַּיֵּשׁ mitbayésh
- Icelandic
- skömmustulegur
- Kurdish
- şermezar
- Latvian
- nokaunējies
- Lithuanian
- susigėdęs
- Norwegian
- skamfull
- Romanian
- rușinat
- Scottish Gaelic
- nàraichte
- Serbo-Croatian
- posramljen
- Slovak
- zahanbený
- Slovenian
- osramočen
- Swahili
- mwenye aibu
- Yiddish
- פֿאַרשעמט farshemt
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A·shamed′ (…), adjective
Origin: 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.” John Wyclif
All that forsake thee shall be ashamed.— Jer. xvii. 13.
I began to be ashamed of sitting idle.— Dr. Samuel Johnson
Enough to make us ashamed of our species.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present.— Charles Robert Darwin
☞ Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54