ASHAMED

ashamed

(adjective) feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; “are you ashamed for having lied?”; “felt ashamed of my torn coat”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

ashamed (comparative more ashamed, superlative most ashamed)

Feeling shame or guilt.

Synonyms

• embarrassed

Antonyms

• proud

Verb

ashamed

simple past tense and past participle of ashame

Anagrams

• hamades

Source: Wiktionary

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A*shamed", a. Etym: [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.]

Definition: 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. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. Darwin.

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.

ASHAME

A*shame, v. t. Etym: [Pref. a- + shame: cf. AS. ascamian to shame (where a- is the same as Goth. us-, G. er-, and orig. meant out), gescamian, gesceamian, to shame.]

Definition: To shame. [R.] Barrow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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