What does ashamed mean?

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əˈʃeɪmdashamed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ashamed(p)adjective

    feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse

    "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat"

Wiktionary

  1. ashamedadjective

    Feeling shame or guilt.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ashamedadjective

    Touched with shame; generally with of before the cause of shame.

    Etymology: from shame.

    Profess publickly the doctrine of Jesus Christ, not being ashamed of the word of God, or of any practices enjoined by it. Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living.

    One wou’d have thought she would have stirr’d; but strove
    With modesty, and was asham’d to move. John Dryden, Fables.

    This I have shadowed, that you may not be ashamed of that hero, whose protection you undertake. John Dryden, Conq. of Gr. Ded.

Wikipedia

  1. ashamed

    Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion often associated with negative self-evaluation; motivation to quit; and feelings of pain, exposure, distrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness.

ChatGPT

  1. ashamed

    Ashamed can be defined as a feeling of guilt, embarrassment, or regret caused by one's own actions, behaviors, or circumstances. It is a sense of discomfort and self-consciousness that arises when we perceive that we have fallen short of our own moral or societal standards.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ashamedadjective

    affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety

  2. Etymology: [Orig. a p. p. of ashame, v. t.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ashamed

    a-shāmd′, adj. affected with shame (with of for the cause of shame; for, the person).—v.t. and v.i. Ashame′, to feel shame: to put to shame.—n. Ashamed′ness.—p.adj. Asham′ing. [Pa.p. of old verb ashame.]

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ashamed' in Adjectives Frequency: #971

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ashamed in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ashamed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ashamed in a Sentence

  1. Arizona Sen.John McCain:

    I felt so guilty and so ashamed that I had put myself in a position where I was on this show. I'm very candid about this in my book, the point isn’t to s--t on Seth Meyers, although I would never be comfortable appearing on his show again, obviously, but the point of it was that we, as women, there are so many added burdens that have to do with pregnancy and motherhood that I could never have possibly imagined.

  2. Christen Kuikoua:

    I value my culture, I value my people, I value my nation. I am not ashamed to say that I am a proud product of Africa

  3. Andrew Smith:

    I'm a staunch Republican and it brought tears to my eyes a couple of times. I'm not ashamed to say it.

  4. Mike James:

    I'm not ashamed of it, i'm not embarrassed about it. It is something that I will continue to use, because I have a life to live.

  5. Nadia Shihata:

    Some put on a strong facade but eventually broke down. Some got frustrated and upset. Many of them were ashamed and embarrassed, it was often difficult testimony to listen to. But, you know what ? As difficult as it was for all of us to hear, it was far worse for them to experience and relive.

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