# ashamed

Pronunciation: say "uh-SHAYMD" /əˈʃeɪmd/

## Adjective

1. Feeling shame or guilt because of something you have done or failed to do.
   - Simple: Feeling bad or guilty about something you did wrong.
   - _She was ashamed of the way she had treated her coworkers during the dispute._
   - _Many of the soldiers felt ashamed to ask for the help they so clearly needed._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of ashame. Archaic; in current English ashamed is an adjective. — simple past and past participle of ashame
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of ashame. This old verb, meaning to shame someone, is no longer used.

## Origin

From Middle English ashamed, from Old English āsċamod, the past participle of āsċamian ("to be ashamed"). It is formed from a- plus shame plus -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ashamed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).