shame

Forms

1.An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
- When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.
- The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents.
2.Something to regret.
- And what you do to me is a shame.
- It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.
3.Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- Honour and shame from no condition rise.
4.The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.

1.A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
2.Ellipsis of what a shame; expressing disappointment or sympathy
- Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!

1.Embarrassed and shy, particularly because one is the subject of attention.
- She says that she doesn't touch them, this is important, sometimes maybe a handshake may make them more shame, that is shy or embarrassed.
2.Causing embarrassment or shyness.
- "A lot of the time when we want to do stuff we'll be like, 'Oh no, that's shame, I don't want to do that because I'll be on my own'," Headland told NIT.

Uncommon· #3010

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *skamō

Proto-West Germanic *skamu

Old English sċamu

Middle English schame

English shame

From Middle English schame, from Old English sċamu, from Proto-West Germanic *skamu, from Proto-Germanic *skamō.

Cognates

*German Scham (“shame”)