abashed

English

Alternative forms

• abasht (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæʃt/

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• Rhymes: -æʃt

Adjective

abashed (comparative more abashed, superlative most abashed)

1. Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
   • 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 5:

     The scanty garments of fig-leaves with which our abashed first parents sought to conceal their nakedness.

   • 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• abashedly
• abashedness
• bashful
• unabashed

Translations

embarrassed

• Aragonese: royo, ^{(please verify)} avergonzau, ^{(please verify)} avergonyau
• Bulgarian: засрамен (bg) (zasramen), смутен (bg) (smuten)
• Catalan: avergonyit (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Corsican: imbarazzatu, vergugnosu
• Czech: nesvůj (cs)
• Dutch: beschaamd (nl), verlegen (nl), beteuterd (nl), in verlegenheid, op zijn neus kijkend
• Extremaduran: achicau
• 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