abashed

English

Alternative forms

• abasht (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbæʃt/

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• Rhymes: -æʃt

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Adjective

abashed (comparative more abashed, superlative most abashed)

1. Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 14:

     So spake the Lord Goldry Bluszco, standing in great pride and splendour beneath the starry canopy, and scowling terribly on the Ambassador from Witchland, so that the Ambassador was abashed and his knees smote together.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:abashed.

Derived terms

• abashedly
• abashedness
• bashful
• unabashed

Translations

embarrassed

• Bulgarian: засрамен (bg) (zasramen), смутен (bg) (smuten)
• Catalan: avergonyit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尴尬 (zh), 尷尬 / 尴尬 (zh), 羞愧 (zh) (xiūkuì)

• Czech: nesvůj (cs)
• Dutch: beschaamd (nl), verlegen (nl), beteuterd (nl), in verlegenheid, op zijn neus kijkend
• Finnish: hämillään (fi), hämmentynyt (fi)
• French: confus (fr), décontenancé (fr)
• German: beschämt (de), verlegen (de)
• Icelandic: vandræðalegur (is)
• Ido: shamigita (io), timidigita (io)
• Italian: confuso (it), imbarazzato (it), turbato (it)
• Macedonian: засрамен m (zasramen)
• Malay:

  Jawi: مالو (ms)

  Rumi: malu (ms)

• Manx: nearit
• Māori: koari
• Norwegian: skamfull (no), forlegen, beskjemmet
• Persian: خجالت زده (fa), شرمسار (fa)
• Polish: speszony, zmieszany (pl), zawstydzony (pl)
• Portuguese: envergonhado (pt)
• Russian: сконфу́женный (ru) (skonfúžennyj), смеша́вшийся (ru) (smešávšijsja), смущённый (ru) (smuščónnyj), расте́рянный (ru) (rastérjannyj), пристыжённый (ru) (pristyžónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: posramljen (sh), посрамљен (Cyrl), postiđen (sh)
• Spanish: avergonzado (es)

Verb

abashed

1. simple past and past participle of abash

Synonyms

synonyms of "abashed"

• ashamed
• confounded
• confused
• discomfited
• discomposed
• disconcerted
• discountenanced
• dismayed
• dumbfounded
• embarrassed
• humiliated
• mortified
• nonplussed
• out of countenance
• perturbed
• shamefaced
• taken aback