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Definition: Shameful |
ShamefulAdjective1. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice". 2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shameful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: ShamefulSynonyms: black (adj), disgraceful (adj), ignominious (adj), inglorious (adj), opprobrious (adj), scandalous (adj), shocking (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious. |
Vice | Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shameful |
| English words defined with "shameful": black ♦ criminally ♦ disgraceful ♦ fig leaf, foully ♦ ignominious, inglorious ♦ opprobrious ♦ reprehensively ♦ scandalous, shocking ♦ Vituperrious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shameful": Witness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "shameful": flagitious. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Such a shameful fall from glory (Tango & Cash; writing credit: Randy Feldman) It's shameful but, eh, it's a living (Hyde and Hare; writing credit: Warren Foster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shameful Behavior? (1926) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Eustache Deschamps | Better honor than shameful wealth. |
George Farquhar | There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. |
Isaac Watts | Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. |
Phaedrus | Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | the shameful phase |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | My lord, you do me shameful injury Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | As a result, you may feel that to seek help is to admit some type of shameful defect in yourself. (references) | |
The scientific study of incontinence and the dissemination of research findings will help professionals and laypersons realize that loss of continence need not be a condition that is inevitable or shameful. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Of all the reckless devastations of our national heritage, none is really more shameful than the continued poisoning of our rivers and our air. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Shameful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Shameful" is used about 246 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.78% | 243 | 19,167 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.22% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 246 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "shameful": half-shameful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shameful | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shameful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | për të ardhur turp, i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاضح (disgraceful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, outrageous, scandalous), مخز (debasing, degrading, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliating, ignominious, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameless), مخجل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срамен (infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, scandalous, vile), скандален (flagrant, glaring, infamous, monstrous, outrageous, scandalous, shocking), възмутителен (disgusting, outrageous, revolting, scandalous, shocking, ungodly), неприличен (bawdy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, nasty, naughty, off color, off colour, ribald, salacious, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), позорен (disgraceful, flagitious, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 卑鄙 (Despicability), 不"面 , 丑 (1-3 a.m., 2nd Earthly Branch, clown, disgraceful, ugly). (various references) | |
Czech | ostudný (disgraceful, ignominious), hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Dutch | smadelýk (abusive, insulting, offensive), schandelijk, schandelijk, schandelýk, oneervol. (various references) | |
Esperanto | hontinda. (various references) | |
Farsi | ننگین (Infamous, Inglorious), شرم اور (Gross, Indecent, Inglorious, Petulant). (various references) | |
Finnish | häpeällinen (disgraceful, ignominious, infamous). (various references) | |
French | honteux (shamefaced, sheepish). (various references) | |
German | beschämend (abashedly, abashing, blameful, blamefully, embarrassing, humiliating, mortifying, mortifyingly, shaming). (various references) | |
Greek | επαίσχυντοσ, αισχρόσ (bawdy, disgraceful, ignominious, nefarious, obscene, outrageous, salacious, shocking, smutty, wicked). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחפיר (disgraceful, flagrant, grievous, ignominius, inglorious), מ'ו " (disgraceful, foul, fulsome, improper, indecent, obnoxious, obscene, odious, opprobrious), מביש (degrading, disgraceful, flagrant, ignominius, inglorious, scandalous), בז" (cad, contemptible, despicable, despised, mean, mean-spirited, measly, nasty, ornery, scamp, sordid, villain, worm, wretched). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szégyenteljes (disgraceful), szégyenletes (dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, ignominious, opprobrious, reproachful). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memalukan (disgraceful, embarrassing, scandalize). (various references) | |
Italian | vergognoso (ashamed, bashful, damnable, discreditable, disgraceful, embarrassed, opprobrious, shamefaced, shy, sinful, timid), obbrobrioso (disgraceful, ghastly), disonorevole (discreditable, discreditably, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 苦苦しい (disgusting, loathsome, scandalous, unpleasant), 苦々しい (disgusting, loathsome, scandalous, unpleasant), 見っともない (indecent), 情無い (deplorable, miserable, pitiable), 情ない (deplorable, miserable, pitiable), 情け無い (deplorable, miserable, pitiable), 情けない (deplorable, miserable, pitiable), 情けない (deplorable, miserable, pitiable), 浅ましい (abject, despicable, mean, miserable, wretched), 小恥ずかしい (feeling a littleembarrassed), 小っ恥ずかしい (feeling a littleembarrassed), 忸怩たる (bashful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なさけない (deplorable, miserable, pitiable), にがにがしい (disgusting, loathsome, scandalous, unpleasant), "っぱずかしい (feeling a littleembarrassed), "はずかしい (feeling a littleembarrassed), あさましい (abject, despicable, mean, miserable, wretched), じくじたる (bashful), みっともない (indecent). (various references) | |
Korean | 부끄러운. (various references) | |
Manx | neareydagh (ashamed, ignominious, reserved). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amefulshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vergonhoso (discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, fie-fie, ignominious, ill-spoken, infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandal, scandalous, shy). (various references) | |
Romanian | scandalos (disgraceful, gamy, infamous, mouthy, opprobrious, scandalous, shocking, unworthy), ruşinos (bashful, discreditable, disgraceful, disgracefully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, inglorious, maidenlike, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, scandalous, sheepish, shy, sky), nedemn, mârşav (despicable, dirty, grovelling, infamous, mean, scummy, skunk), deşãnţat (brazen, indecent, slatternly). (various references) | |
Russian | позорный (discreditable, disgraceful, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, ignominious, inglorious, scandal). (various references) | |
Scottish | n r (disgraceful : is n r leam, I account it shameful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sramotan (disgraceful, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, obscene, opprobrious, scandalous), sraman (disgraceful, outrageous, reproachful, ungodly). (various references) | |
Spanish | vergonzoso (abashing, ashamed, bashful, diffident, discreet, disgraceful, humiliating, ignominious, shamefaced, shameless, sheepish, shy, timide), infamante (offensive, slanderous). (various references) | |
Swedish | skamlig (disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüz kızartıcı (discreditable, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, reproachful), utandırıcı (disgraceful, embarrassing), utanç verici (disgraceful, infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, sinful), rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), kepaze (infamous, scandalous, vile), ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame). (various references) | |
Turkmen | wejera, masgara, biabraя. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скандальний (scandalous, shocking), ганебний (detractive, disgraceful, dishonest, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, obloquious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, stigmatic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m xấu hổ (mortifying), l m ngượng ngùng, l m hổ thẹn. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwarthus (disgraceful), gwaradwyddus (disgraceful), cywilyddus (arrant, disgraceful), anniwarth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dedecor, dedecoris, flagitiosissime, indigna, indigne, indigni, indignis, indignos, indignum, inhonesta, inhoneste, inhonesto, inpudentissimi, pudendus, pudens, turpe, turpem, turpis, turpissima, turpissimum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bysmorful, heanlic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Plhsmonhn atimiaV ek doxhV pie kai su kai diasaleuqhti kai seisqhti ekuklwsen epi se pothrion dexiaV kuriou kai sunhcqh atimia epi thn doxan sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Repletus est ignominia pro gloria bibe tu quoque et consopire circumdabit te calix dexterae Domini et vomitus ignominiae super gloriam tuam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He is fulfillid with yuel fame for glorie; and drynke thou, and be aslept; the cup of the riyt half of the Lord shal aboute yeue thee, and casting vp of yuel fame vpon thi glorie. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ikaw nabuhong na sa kaulaw ug dili sa himaya: uminum ka usab, ug manig-ingon ka sa usa nga walay-circuncicion; ang copa sa kamot nga too ni Jehova moanha kanimo, ug ang mahugaw nga kaulaw magatabon sa imong himaya. |
| Croatian | Ti si pijan od sramote, ne od slave! Pij samo i pokazuj kapicu. Dolazi ti pehar iz desnice Jahvine i sramota na slavu tvoju! |
| Danish | Du mætted dig med Skam for Ære. Drik selv, vis din Forhud frem! Nu kommer Bægeret fra HERRENs højre til dig og Skændsel til din Ære. |
| Dutch | Gij zult ook verzadigd worden met schande, voor eer; drinkt gij ook, en ontbloot de voorhuid; de beker der rechterhand des HEEREN zal zich tot u wenden, en er zal een schandelijk uitbraaksel over uw heerlijkheid zijn. |
| Finnish | Sinä ravitset itsesi häpeällä, et kunnialla: niinpä juo sinäkin ja paljasta ympärileikkaamattomuutesi. Sinun kohdallesi on kiertyvä Herran oikean käden malja ja häväistys kunnian sijaan. |
| French | Tu seras rassasié de honte plus que de gloire; Bois aussi toi-même, et découvre-toi! La coupe de la droite de l`Éternel se tournera vers toi, Et l`ignominie souillera ta gloire. |
| German | Du hast dich gesättigt mit Schande und nicht mit Ehre. So saufe du nun auch, daß du taumelst! denn zu dir wird umgehen der Kelch in der Rechten des HERRN, und mußt eitel Schande haben für deine Herrlichkeit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sekarang tibalah giliranmu untuk dipermalukan, dan bukan untuk dihormati. Kehormatanmu akan berubah menjadi kehinaan. TUHAN akan memaksa engkau minum dari cawan yang berisi hukuman bagimu. Engkau akan minum dan terhuyung-huyung. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa engkau juga akan kenyang dengan malu dan kecelaan; engkaupun akan minum dan ditelanjangkan kemaluanmu; maka piala dari pada tangan kanan Tuhanpun akan balik kepadamu dan muntah yang keji akan ada pada segala kemuliaanmu. |
| Italian | Ti sei saziato di vergogna, non di gloria. Bevi, e ti colga il capogiro. Si riverser su di te il calice della destra del Signore e la vergogna sopra il tuo onore, |
| Maori | E ki ana koe i te whakama, kahore i te kororia: e inu hoki koe, kia waiho ai koe, ano he mea kokotikore: ka anga mai ki a koe te kapu a to Ihowa ringa matau, a he whakama whakarihariha ka tau ki runga ki tou kororia. |
| Norwegian | Du blir mettet med skam og ikke med ære; drikk også du og vis din forhud frem! Begeret i Herrens høire hånd skal i sin tid komme til dig, og dyp skam skal skjule din ære. |
| Rumanian | Te vei sqtura de ruwine kn loc de slavq; bea wi tu, wi desvelewte-te! Kyi va veni wi yie rkndul sq iei paharul din dreapta Domnului, wi va veni ruwinea peste slava ta. |
| Russian | фЩ ТЕУЩФЙМУС УФЩ"ПН ЧНЕУФП УМБЧЩ; ЕК ЦЕ Й ФЩ Й ПЛБЪЩЧБК УТБНПФХ, --П'ТБФЙФУС Й Л ФЕ'Е ЮБЫБ "ЕУОЙ"Щ зПУ П"ОЕК Й ПУТБНМЕОЙЕ ОБ УМБЧХ ФЧПА. |
| Spanish | Te has llenado de deshonra más que de honra; bebe tú también y atúrdete. La copa que está en la mano derecha de Jehovah se volverá contra ti, y la desgracia caerá sobre tu gloria. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shameful": shamefully, shamefulness, shamefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Shameful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schanefelt, shamefull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shameful" (pronounced shā"mful) |
| 4 | -m f u l | harmful, triumphal. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-l-m-s-u" | |
-1 letter: fulhams. | |
-2 letters: almehs, flames, fleams, flumes, fulham, haulms, lehuas, ulemas. | |
-3 letters: alefs, almeh, almes, alums, amuse, false, fames, flame, flams, flash, fleam, fleas, flesh, flues, flume, flush, fuels, fumes, fusel, haems, hales, halms, hames, haulm, hauls, heals, helms, hemal, hulas, lames, leafs, leash, lehua, males, mauls, meals, mules, selah, shale, shame, shaul, sheaf. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-h-l-m-s-u" | |
+2 letters: shamefully. | |
+3 letters: harmfulness. | |
+4 letters: shamefulness. | |
+5 letters: harmfulnesses. | |
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