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shamefaced

/ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst/

shamefaced adjective: bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment.

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Adjective

shamefaced (comparative more shamefaced, superlative most shamefaced)

  1. Bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment.
    • Youth is not glorious; it is shamefaced. It is a time of self-searching and self-exacerbation.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company
  2. Ashamed, displaying shame, especially by blushing in the face.

shamefaced meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

shamefaced in Hindi

shamefaced, abashed
लज्जावान lajjāvān

shamefaced in Malayalam

abashed, ashamed, sheepish
നാണിച്ചുപോയ, ലജ്ജയുള്ള, ലജ്ജിത, ഏറ്റവും ലജ്ജാശീലമായ, നാണം കെട്ടഭാവമുള്ള, ഇളിഭ്യനായ

Forms of shamefaced

comparativemore shamefaced
superlativemost shamefaced

Origin of shamefaced

Alteration (due to folk etymology: shame + faced) of shamefast, from Middle English schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (“modest”), equivalent to shame + fast. Synchronically with -faced (/ˈfeɪst/).

Words formed from shamefaced

Phrases with shamefaced

Questions about shamefaced

What does shamefaced mean?
Shamefaced means bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment.
What is shamefaced in Hindi?
Shamefaced in Hindi is लज्जावान (lajjāvān). See Shamefaced meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is shamefaced?
Shamefaced is an adjective.
How do you pronounce shamefaced?
Shamefaced is pronounced /ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst/.

Words near shamefaced in the dictionary

  1. shamedly
  2. shamee
  3. shameeana
  4. shameeanas
  5. shamees
  6. shamefaced
  7. shamefaced crab
  8. shamefaced crabs
  9. shamefacedly
  10. shamefacedness
  11. shamefacednesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shamefaced (page history and authors); लज्जावान (Hindi) (page history and authors); shamefaced (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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