ashamed

/əˈʃeɪmd/

/əˈʃeɪmd/

When you have done something you know you shouldn't have, or just something embarrassing, you feel ashamed, or remorseful. Don't be ashamed of your unusual dance moves — you were the life of the party!

The word ashamed has, in some form, been around since before the 11th Century. You might feel less ashamed of your mistakes if you're able to learn from them. As Jonathan Swift put it, "A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."

Definitions of ashamed

1. adjective

   feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
   “are you ashamed for having lied?”

   “felt ashamed of my torn coat”

   synonyms:

   discredited, disgraced, dishonored, shamed

   suffering shame

   embarrassed, humiliated, mortified

   made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

   guilty, hangdog, shamed, shamefaced

   showing a sense of guilt

   shamefaced, sheepish

   showing a sense of shame

   penitent, repentant

   feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

   antonyms:

   unashamed

   used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame

   audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent

   not held back by conventional ideas of behavior

   shameless, unblushing

   feeling no shame

   unabashed, unembarrassed

   not embarrassed

   impenitent, unremorseful, unrepentant

   not penitent or remorseful