English > ashamed: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse. |
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| Examples | - "are you ashamed for having lied?"
- "felt ashamed of my torn coat"
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| Narrower | discredited, disgraced, dishonored, shamed | Suffering shame |
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| embarrassed, humiliated, mortified | made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride |
| guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed | showing a sense of guilt |
| shamefaced, sheepish | showing a sense of shame |
| See also | penitent, repentant | Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds |
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| Opposite | unashamed | Used of persons or their behavior |
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| Spanish | abochornado, avergonzada, avergonzado |
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| Catalan | avergonyit |
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| Adverbs | ashamedly | with a feeling of shame |
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