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ashamed is an adjective meaning "feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse". It carries one recorded sense.
feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
“are you ashamed for having lied?”
“felt ashamed of my torn coat”
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 ashamed 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.