Abashed

Definition: Abashed

Abashed

Adjective

1. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums".

Date "abashed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Abashed

Synonyms: chagrined (adj), embarrassed (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Humility	Humbled; Verb: bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abashed

English words defined with "abashed": Abaist, Abashedly, Abawed ♦ chagrined ♦ embarrassed ♦ Out of countenance ♦ Weak. (references)

Specialty definitions using "abashed": TO SING SMALL. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Javert perceived the sister, and stopped abashed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Abashed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Abashed" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	50%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (past participle)	25%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	17.86%	5	157,705
Adjective (general or positive)	7.14%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	28	N/A

Expression using "abashed": feel abashed. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "abashed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bedees (self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Albanian		i hutuar (absent, absentminded, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, foggy, inadvertent, muddle-headed, perplexed, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, vague). (various references)

Arabic		‏خجول (ashamed, backward, bashful, chary, coy, diffident, embarrassed, mean, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, sheep's, shrinking, shy, timid). (various references)

Bulgarian		смутен (confused, constrained, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, muddle-headed, muzzy, perplexed, perturbed, raddle, self conscious, sheepish, uneasy, unrestful). (various references)

Chinese		窘迫 (Abash, Abashing). (various references)

Czech		zaražený (dumbfounded, sheepish, subdued), v rozpacích (embarrassed), nesvùj (ablush, ill at ease). (various references)

Danish		sky (afraid, cloud, self-conscious, shy, timid). (various references)

Dutch		timide (self-conscious, shy), blo (self-conscious, shy), bevangen (defeat, self-conscious, shy, win over), bedeesd (self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Esperanto		sinĝena (self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Faeroese		smæðin (self-conscious, shy), blúgvur (chaste, self-conscious, shy). (various references)

French		stupéfait (taken aback), désordonné, confus. (various references)

Frisian		ferlegen (self-conscious, shy). (various references)

German		beschämte (ashamedly, embarassed, embarrassed, shamed). (various references)

Greek		σαν χαμένοσ, ταραγμένοσ (agitated, confused, nervous). (various references)

Hungarian		elképedt (dumbfounded, flabbergasted, he was struck dumb, nonplussed, stupefied, to be taken aback). (various references)

Icelandic		feiminn (self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Italian		timido (bashful, coy, diffident, faint, milksop, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timide), imbarazzato (embaracced, move, sheepish, transfer), confuso (addled, confounded, confused, dazed, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		面� ゆい (bashful, embarrassed, self-conscious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おもはゆい (bashful, embarrassed, self-conscious). (various references)

Manx		nearit (shamed). (various references)

Norwegian		sjenert (afraid, coy, self-conscious, shy, timid), blyg (self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Papiamen		tin bergwensa (be abashed, be ashamed). (various references)

Pig Latin		abasheday.(various references)

Polish		zażenowany. (various references)

Portuguese		embaraçado (concerned, constrained, embarrassement, Guinea, lumberjack, self conscious, straitened), confundido (baffled, jumbled, mistaken, spellbound). (various references)

Romanian		ruşinat (ashamed, mean, shamefaced, shamefacedly), jenat (ashamed, embarrassed, strange), deconcertat (confused, disconcerted), confuz (addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded). (various references)

Russian		смущенный (ablush, confused, disconcerted, embarrassed, taken aback). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbunjen (ablush, aghast, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, distraught, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical). (various references)

Spanish		avergonzado (ashamed, embarrassed, hangdog, shamefaced). (various references)

Swedish		generad (embarrassed, self conscious), förlägen (awkward, disconcerted, embarrassed, self-conscious, shy), brydd (embarrassed, puzzled, self-conscious, shy). (various references)

Turkish		yüzü kızarmış (ablush, florid), utanmış (ashamed, shame-faced), bozulmuş (broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, spoilt, unmade, upset, withered, wrecked). (various references)

Ukranian		сконфужений, збентежений (bewildered, confused, disconcerted, distraught, ill at ease, puddled), присоромлений (ashamed). (various references)

Welsh		yswilio (be abashed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inconfusibilem, perturbatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "abashed": unabashed. (additional references)
	Words containing "abashed": unabashedly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abashed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaahed, aahed, abaset, Abasha, abashidze, Abashum, abasted, Abeche, abishai, abmaphd, Aebischer, Anbacher, asbashed, Balashov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "abashed" (pronounced uba"sht)
5	u b a" sh t	unabashed.
4	-b a" sh t	bashed.
3	-a" sh t	cashed, clashed, crashed, dashed, flashed, gashed, hashed, lashed, mashed, slashed, smashed, splashed, stashed, thrashed, trashed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-h-s"
	-1 letter: abased, bashed.
	-2 letters: aahed, abase, abash, ahead, ashed, baaed, based, beads, deash, hades, heads, sabed, sadhe, shade.
	-3 letters: aahs, abas, abed, asea, baas, bade, bads, base, bash, bead, beds, dabs, dahs, dash, debs, edhs, hade, haed, haes, head, sabe, sade, shad, shea, shed.
	-4 letters: aah, aas, aba, abs, ads, aha, ash, baa, bad, bah, bas, bed, dab, dah, deb, edh, eds, had, hae, has, hes, sab, sad, sae, sea, sha, she.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, ae, ah, as, ba, be, de, ed, eh, es, ha, he, sh.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-h-s"
	+2 letters: baldheads, dahabeahs, dahabiehs, headbands, unabashed.
	+3 letters: backlashed, backwashed, balderdash, beachheads, blackheads, djellabahs, handbasket, handlebars, headboards.
	+4 letters: backhanders, barrelheads, brainwashed, haberdasher, handbaskets, unabashedly.
	+5 letters: balderdashes, blackhanders, carbohydrase, chambermaids, haberdashers, haberdashery, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, handbreadths, handsbreadth, hardscrabble.
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