ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsAashamed
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ashamed
Meaning: feeling bad or guilty about something you did
ashamed in a sentence
How ashamed is used in real sentences:
Maya felt ashamed after blaming her brother for the mess she made.
Ben looked ashamed when he returned the library book he had damaged.
“Leo looked ashamed when he remembered grabbing the trees and making Maya upset.”
— from the passage Building a Fair Solution
Synonyms for ashamed
Other words for ashamed — guilty, remorseful and sorry — carry the same meaning.
- guilty
- remorseful
- sorry
Antonyms of ashamed
Words that mean the opposite of ashamed:
- proud
- unashamed
Where it comes from
From Old English āscamian 'to feel shame'
Memory hook
Ashamed contains shame, the bad feeling after doing wrong.