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abashed

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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)

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.

Derived terms

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
Maori: 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

simple past and past participle of abash

Synonyms

synonyms of "abashed"

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