Word.ws English Dictionary

shamefully

/ˈʃeɪmfəli/

shamefully adverb: in a shameful manner.

Adverb

shamefully (comparative more shamefully, superlative most shamefully)

  1. In a shameful manner.
    • I looked shamefully at the floor.
  2. Used to express discontent with a situation or occurrence.
    • The hospital was shamefully underequipped.

Forms of shamefully

comparativemore shamefully
superlativemost shamefully

Origin of shamefully

Inherited from Middle English schamefully. By surface analysis, shameful + -ly.

Questions about shamefully

What does shamefully mean?
Shamefully means in a shameful manner.
What part of speech is shamefully?
Shamefully is an adverb.
How do you pronounce shamefully?
Shamefully is pronounced /ˈʃeɪmfəli/.

Words near shamefully in the dictionary

  1. shamefastly
  2. shamefastness
  3. shameful
  4. shamefulest
  5. shamefullest
  6. shamefully
  7. shamefulness
  8. shamefulnesses
  9. Shameirang
  10. shameless
  11. shamelesse

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shamefully (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-shamefully.wav.

Cite this entry: “shamefully.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shamefully. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.