abashed

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymschagrinedembarrassed

   Similardiscomposed

Other forms of abashed

comparative

abashedder·

superlative

abasheddest·

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.

Questions about abashed

What does abashed mean?

abashed means "feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed".

How many syllables are in abashed?

abashed has 2 syllables: aba-shed. The stress falls on "shed". In IPA it is /əˈbæʃt/.

What is another word for abashed?

Close synonyms include chagrined, embarrassed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abashed a common word?

abashed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with abashed?

1 word rhymes with abashed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.