Shame

Noun

 * 1) Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor, or other wrong in the opinion of the person experiencing the feeling. It is caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct.
 * When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.
 * The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents.
 * 1) Something to regret.
 * It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.
 * "And what you do to me is a shame." - Evelyn "Champagne" King, in the song Shame.
 * 1)  That which is shameful and private, especially on the personal body.
 * Cover your shame!

Synonyms

 * pity

Derived terms

 * body shame
 * crying shame

Verb

 * 1)  To feel shame, be ashamed.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
 * Therefore, brothir, I woll that ye wete I shame nat to be with hym nor to do hym all the plesure that I can.
 * 1)  To cause to feel shame.
 * I was shamed by the teacher's public disapproval.

Adjectives for Shame
divulged; alluring;  sweet;  irreparable; maiden; perpetual; conscious; notable; eternal; stinging; sluggish; pure; innocent; passing; burning; penetrative; treble; bashful; sudden; blushing; wounding; virtuous; guilty; tender; murderous; notorious; secret; ingenious; infernal; deep; passionate; blighting; primal; engendered; earthly; naked; desolate; cherished; disgusting; defiant; tolerated; humble; utter; girlish; villainous; angry; lovely; crying; unvalued; lasting; natural.

Verbs for Shame
accept—; avenge—; bequeath—; blush in—; bow in—; cloak—; condemn—; cover—; cower in—; cringe in—; deaden to—; disparage—; endure—; evoke—; expel in—; flush with—; hide in—; impute to—; put to —; rid of—; sink with—; slink away in—; suffer—; —blots; —burns; —debases; — defames; —denies; —degrades; —dishonors; —humiliates; —mixes; —overcomes; —possesses;  —scandalizes;   —slurs;   — stains; —stigmatizes; —sullies; —sweeps; —taints;  —tarnishes;   —villifies;  —disgraces; bring to—.

Adverbs for Shame
consciously; viciously; ingeniously; jealously; disgustingly; traitorously; lustfully; vindictively.

Thesaurus
abasement, abash, abashment, abomination, apologies, atrocity, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bad, besmirch, bitterness, blacken, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bully, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach, calamity, calumniate, calumniation, cast reproach upon, catastrophe, chagrin, chasten, coerce, comedown, contempt, contriteness, contrition, coyness, debase, debasement, decency, decorousness, decorum, defamation, defame, deflate, deflation, defrock, degradation, degrade, delicacy, denigration, deplume, derogation, descent, desecration, diffidence, dirty shame, disaster, disconcert, discountenance, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, displume, disrepute, drive, dump, eclipse, elegance, embarrass, embarrassment, error, evil, force, grief, guilt, hangdog look, humble, humbled pride, humiliate, humiliation, humility, ignominy, impute shame to, infamy, iniquity, knavery, let down, letdown, low-down dirty shame, modesty, mortification, mortify, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outclass, outdo, outrage, outshine, outstrip, overshadow, peccancy, pillory, pity, profanation, propriety, prudishness, pudency, pudicity, push, put down, put out, put to shame, put-down, reflect discredit upon, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regretting, remorse, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repining, reproach, reprobacy, respectability, sacrilege, scandal, scandalize, seemliness, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, self-reproach, setdown, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, show up, shyness, sin, smear, sorriness, sorrow, stain, stigmatize, subdue, suppress, surpass, taint, tarnish, terrible thing, timidity, unfrock, vilification, villainy, violation, wistfulness, wrong

Etymology 1
Old English scamu. Compare Persian (sharm).

Etymology 2
Old English scamian

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خجل
 * Armenian:, խայտառակություն
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: vergonya
 * Chinese:
 * Chinese Characters: 恥, 羞
 * Mandarin: 羞辱, 羞恥,  羞耻
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skam
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: häbi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ντροπή (dropí)
 * Hindi:, शर्म
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: háðung,
 * Ido:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 羞恥心,  面汚し
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 수치
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: عه‌یب, شه‌رم, شووره‌یی
 * Nahuatl: pinauia
 * Occitan: vergonha
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సిగ్గు (siggu)
 * Thai: ความละอายใจ
 * Vietnamese: sự xấu hổ, sự thẹn,  sự ngượng,  sự hổ thẹn


 * Albanian:
 * Catalan: vergonya, llàstima
 * Chinese:
 * Chinese Characters: 恥
 * Mandarin: 羞辱
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: škoda (pity), ostuda
 * Danish: skam
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ντροπή (dropí)


 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:, 羞恥心,  面汚し
 * Korean: 수치
 * Meru:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సిగ్గు (siggu)

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 對羞辱, 对羞辱
 * Croatian:, postidjeti
 * Czech:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Japanese: 恥をかかせる
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: стыдить, пристыдить , , опозорить
 * Swahili: aibisha

Derived terms

 * ashamed
 * shame on you
 * shamefaced
 * shameful
 * shamefully
 * shameless
 * shamelessly

Anagrams

 * ahems
 * haems
 * hames
 * Shema