adj
Meaning 1
Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- shameful publicity
- a shameful act
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shameful
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Giving offense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame- Rachel Carson
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
- an ignominious retreat
- inglorious defeat
- an opprobrious monument to human greed
- a shameful display of cowardice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation- Thackeray
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- scandalous behavior
- the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt
- the most shocking book of its time
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shocking
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skamō Proto-West Germanic *skamu Old English sċamu Proto-Indo-European *pleh1- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h1nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Old English sċeomfull Middle English schameful English shameful From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aromanian: arushinos — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Bulgarian: срамен (sramen) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Bulgarian: позорен (pozoren) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Catalan: vergonyós — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Catalan: escadalós — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Chinese Mandarin: 可恥 /可耻 (kěchǐ) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Czech: hanebný — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Czech: ostudný — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Dutch: beschamend — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Finnish: häpeällinen — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- French: honteux — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- French: scandaleux — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Galician: vergoñoso — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- German: schandbar — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- German: beschämend — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- German: blamabel — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- German: peinlich — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃 (agls) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Greek: αισχυντηλός (aischyntilós) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Greek: ντροπιαστικός (ntropiastikós) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Ancient Greek: αἰσχρός (aiskhrós) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Ancient Greek: ἀεικής (aeikḗs) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Hindi: लज्जाजनक (lajjājnak) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Hungarian: szégyenletes — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Irish: náireach — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Irish: náiriúil — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Irish: adhnáireach — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Irish: aithiseach — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Italian: vergognoso — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Japanese: 恥ずべき (hazubeki) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Khmer: គួរអោយអាម៉ាស់ (kuəʼaoyʼaamah) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Latin: pudibundus — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Latin: dēfōrmis — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Malayalam: ലജ്ജാവഹമായ (lajjāvahamāya) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Middle English: schameful — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Norwegian: skamfull — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Plautdietsch: schomphaupt — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Plautdietsch: schaundhauft — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Plautdietsch: schaundboa — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Polish: haniebny — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Portuguese: vergonhoso — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Romanian: rușinos — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Russian: позо́рный (pozórnyj) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Russian: посты́дный (postýdnyj) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Scottish Gaelic: nàr — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Serbo-Croatian: sramotan — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Spanish: vergonzoso — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Swedish: skamlig — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Ukrainian: стидни́й (stydnýj) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Ukrainian: соро́мний (sorómnyj) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Ukrainian: соромі́тний (soromítnyj) — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Vietnamese: hổ thẹn — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
- Zazaki: arey — causing or meriting shame or disgrace
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