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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
abashed (comparative more abashed, superlative most abashed)
- Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, 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)
- 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)
- Serbo-Croatian: posramljen (sh), посрамљен (Cyrl), postiđen (sh)
- Spanish: avergonzado (es)
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Verb
abashed
- simple past and past participle of abash
Synonyms