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say it: uh-BASHT
abashed is an adjective meaning "feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed". It is pronounced /əˈbæʃt/ — uh-BASHT. It carries one recorded sense.
feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed
“felt abashed at the extravagant praise”
“chagrined at the poor sales of his book”
“was embarrassed by her child's tantrums”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for abashed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.