Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English āsceamod, past participle of āsceamian, to feel shame : ā-, intensive pref. + sceamian, to feel shame. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I walked across the floor and I felt ashamed of my thinness and my ugliness and _I know that he knew that I was ashamed_.”
“I think the one that should be ashamed is Michael Steele.”
“The news media has the maturity level of a spoiled adolescent – you know the type of kid that is alway calling someone names and making fun and is deep down in ashamed of themselves but just can't grow up.”
“Anon still hasn't either learned to read or click through, greatly ashamed is what a conservative said he would feel as a member of VT.”
“The sweeping statement that healthy people who stay in welfare must be ashamed is flatly wrong”
“The sweeping statement that healthy people who stay in welfare must be ashamed is flatly wrong, even in the case you are wanting to use, to use the “shame” as a tool to help one self out of welfare.”
“And he used the word ashamed, which I thought was really powerful, rather than just saying we are very sorry.”
“Well neither party said the word ashamed, but she did said that a group vacation was not an option as homeland locals would be joining, and while I am welcome, my brother is not for those same locals would gossip.”
“The following instance is known to _The Christian_ as true, and to a remarkable degree indicates how thoroughly God knows our minutest needs, and how effectively He makes those who ever reproach his name ashamed of their unbelief.”
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
“Another reason why they must now be ashamed is because in the day of their prosperity they had looked with so much disdain upon their neighbours: Thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thee in the day of they pride, v. 56.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ashamed’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Scriptie: The Return of the King
i can't carry it ..., at the end of all..., it's done, reach, eagles, veil, grass, water, cream, strawberries, barley, summer and 200 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
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Hard to spell words
The words on this list are difficult to spell for easy spellers but they should be known by fifth grade, by age 10.
discussed, economy, effective, acquire, require, misled, disorder, disgust, disguise, disarrangement, arranged, voila and 19 more...
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hatful of hollow
some of the words immortalised by Morrissey on Hatful of Hollow
humdrum, rain, ashamed, sick, blushed, mammary, conjugal, punctured, desolate, decree, dull, plain and 24 more...
Tweets
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abraxaszugzwang agreed. It can be overused. Feb 1, 2007
seanahan I'm not so sure of the power of this word. There are varying levels of being ashamed. There is the shame of a child, and shame of a man, which are two completely different things. Obviously, shame is a much deeper emotion than something simple like embarrassment, but the expression "you should be ashamed of yourself" doesn't carry with it any gravitas. Feb 1, 2007
abraxaszugzwang One of the more powerful words in the English language. I remember Robert Bly reading this Alden Nolan poem, pausing, and remarking on the use of the word ashamed.
Then there's the Sufjan Stevens song Romulus, in which he sings, "I was ashamed, I was ashamed of her." The narrator is talking about his mother and when he sings "of her," he can't muster any more than a whisper. Jan 31, 2007