'Shameful' definitions:
Definition of 'shameful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
adjective
Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]
Definition of 'Shameful'
From: GCIDE
- Shameful \Shame"ful\, a.
- 1. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful. [1913 Webster]
- His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Disgraceful; reproachful; indecent; unbecoming; degrading; scandalous; ignominious; infamous. [1913 Webster] -- {Shame"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Shame"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shameful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- ashamed,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- chastening,
- cheap,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contemptible,
- corrupt,
- criminal,
- damnable,
- dark,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- delinquent,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- deviant,
- dire,
- discreditable,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dishonorable,
- disreputable,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- embarrassing,
- enormous,
- evil,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- full of remorse,
- fulsome,
- grievous,
- gross,
- gutter,
- hardly the thing,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- humbling,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- ignominious,
- illegal,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- inglorious,
- iniquitous,
- knavish,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low,
- mean,
- monstrous,
- mortifying,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- out-of-line,
- outrageous,
- peccant,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- rank,
- regretful,
- regrettable,
- remorseful,
- repining,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- sacrilegious,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shabby,
- shady,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameless,
- shaming,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sinful,
- sordid,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- unbecoming,
- unclean,
- undue,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unforgivable,
- unhappy about,
- unlawful,
- unpardonable,
- unprincipled,
- unrespectable,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unspeakable,
- unsuitable,
- unworthy,
- unworthy of one,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- wistful,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong,
- wrongful