ASHAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ashamed mean? 

• ASHAMED (adjective)
  The adjective ASHAMED has 1 sense:

1. feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse

  Familiarity information: ASHAMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASHAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse

Context example:

felt ashamed of my torn coat

Similar:

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)

Also:

penitent; repentant (feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds)

Antonym:

unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)

 Context examples 

She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“I am ashamed of you, Holmes,” said Lestrade with dignity after a few minutes’ silence.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cover your face and be ashamed!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"What's all this? You ought to be ashamed" said the policeman.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am not ashamed of having been mistaken—or, at least, it is light, it is nothing in comparison of what I should feel in thinking ill of him or his sisters.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am ashamed to record it, but I really believe I forgot Dora for a little while.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself, but you and John must keep us in countenance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And now, do not trouble yourself to be ashamed of either my feelings or your own.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Why, Marian," he chided, "you talk as though you were ashamed of your relatives, or of your brother at any rate."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No man need be ashamed of such a wife.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)