ashamed

English

Etymology

From Middle English ashamed, aschamed, from Old English āsċeamod, past participle of Old English āsċeamian (“to be ashamed”), equivalent to a- +‎ shame +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈʃeɪmd/

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Adjective

ashamed (comparative more ashamed, superlative most ashamed)

1. Feeling shame or guilt.
   • 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Isaiah XLII:17, folio 298, verso:

     They ſhal be turned backe : they ſhal be greatly aſhamed, that truſt in grauẽ images, and ſay to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

   • 1618, John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subject”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: J. Macock, published 1679, act V, scene vi, page 279:

     Good Sir pardon me, / I feel ſufficiently my follies penance, / And am aſham’d, that ſhame a thouſand ſorrows / Feed on continually, would I had never ſeen her, / Or with a clearer judgement look’d upon her, / She was too good for me, ſo heavenly good Sir, / Nothing but Heaven can love that ſoul ſufficiently, / Where I ſhall ſee her once again.

   • 1859, Horace Mann, Address at Antioch College:

     Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Synonyms

• embarrassed

Antonyms

• proud

Translations

feeling shame or guilt

• Arabic: خَجْلَان m (ḵajlān), خَجُول m (ḵajūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: مكسوف m (maksūf)

  South Levantine Arabic: خجلان (ḵajlān)

• Belarusian: прысаро́млены (prysarómljeny)
• Breton: mezhek (br)
• Bulgarian: засрамен (bg) (zasramen)
• Catalan: avergonyit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慚愧／惭愧 (zh) (cánkuì), 羞愧 (zh) (xiūkuì)

• Czech: zahanbený
• Danish: skamfuld
• Dutch: beschaamd (nl)
• Esperanto: hontema
• Finnish: häpeissään, nolostunut (fi)
• French: honteux (fr)
• Georgian: შერცხვენილი (šercxvenili), დარცხვენილი (darcxvenili)
• German: beschämt (de)
• Greek: αισχρός (el) (aischrós), επονείδιστος (el) (eponeídistos)

  Ancient: αἰσχῡ́νομαι (aiskhū́nomai) (be ashamed), αἰδέομαι (aidéomai) (be ashamed)

• Hindi: शर्मिंदा (śarmindā)
• Hungarian: szégyell (hu), szégyenkezik (hu) (both: ’be ashamed’)
• Ido: shamanta (io)
• Irish: náirithe; náire a bheith ort (to be ashamed)
• Japanese: 恥ずかしい (ja) (はずかしい, hazukashii)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şermezar (ku), rûreş (ku)

• Latin: pudefactus
• Maori: aniu, aniu
• Navajo: baa yánízin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skamfull (no)

  Nynorsk: skamfull

• Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub)
• Persian: خجالت‌زده (xejâlat-zade), سرافکنده (fa) (sar-afkande), شرمنده (fa) (šarmande)
• Polish: zawstydzony (pl)
• Portuguese: envergonhado (pt), avergonhado (pt)
• Romanian: rușinat (ro) m
• Russian: присты́женный (ru) (pristýžennyj), (e.g. мне (mne)) сты́дно (ru) (stýdno), (e.g. мне (mne)) со́вестно (ru) (sóvestno)
• Serbo-Croatian: pòsrāmljen (sh), pòstīđen (sh)
• Spanish: avergonzado (es), abochornado (es), apenado (es)
• Swedish: skamsen (sv)
• Tetum: moe
• Ukrainian: присоро́млений (prysorómlenyj)
• Winnebago: hirošik

Verb

ashamed

1. simple past and past participle of ashame

Anagrams

• hamades