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Webster 1913 Edition
Ashamed
A-shamed′
,Adj.
[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.” 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.
☞ 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 1828 Edition
Ashamed
ASHA'MED
,Adj.
1.
Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt or a conviction of some criminal action or indecorous conduct, or by the exposure of some gross errors or misconduct, which the person is conscious must be wrong, and which tends to impair his honor or reputation. It is followed by of.Thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed. Ex. 16.
Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. Hosea 10.
2.
Confused by a consciousness of guilt or of inferiority; by the mortification of pride; by failure or disappointment.They shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in images.
Isa. 42.
[This adjective always follows its noun.]
Definition 2024
ashamed
ashamed
English
Adjective
ashamed (comparative more ashamed, superlative most ashamed)
- Feeling shame or guilt.
- Horace Mann, Address at Antioch College, 1859
- Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- Horace Mann, Address at Antioch College, 1859
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
feeling shame or guilt
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Verb
ashamed
- simple past tense and past participle of ashame