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say it: SHAYM-fuhl
shameful is an adjective meaning "(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame". It is pronounced /ˈʃeɪmfəl/ — SHAYM-fuhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(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”
“an ignominious retreat”
“inglorious defeat”
“an opprobrious monument to human greed”
“a shameful display of cowardice”
giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
“scandalous behavior”
“the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt”
“the most shocking book of its time”
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 shameful 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.