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shameful

/ˈʃeɪmfʊl/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʃeɪmfʊl/
shameful
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

sha - me - ful -> shameful

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ရှက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ရှက်ကိုးရှက်ကန်းဖြစ်သော။

Full entry

shame /ʃeÇm/ n

၁။ [U] အရှက်။ ရှက်စိတ်။ feel shame at having told a lie ❍ hang one's head in shame ❍ To my shame (ie I feel shame that) I never thanked him for his kindness.
၂။ [U] ရှက်စိတ်။ အရှက်။ How could you do such a thing? Have you no shame? ❍ She is completely without shame.
၃။ [U] အရှက်။ bring shame on sb/oneself.
၄။ a shame [sing] (derog infml ) ဝမ်းနည်းစရာ။ It's a crying shame that we didn't buy the house when we had the money. ❍ What a shame you didn't win. ❍ Isn't it a shame that the rain spoiled our picnic?
v (က) ရှက်သည်။ အရှက်ရသည်။ He was shamed by how much more work the others had done. (ခ) အရှက်ရ စေသည်။ You've shamed your family.
❏ put sb/sth to shame [IDM ] သိမ်ငယ်မိစေသည်။ Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.
❏ shameful /-fl/ adj ရှက်ဖွယ်။ ရှက်စရာ။ shameful conduct/deceit.
❏ shamefully /-fǝli/ adv ရှက်ဖွယ်လိလိ။ ရှက်စရာကောင်း လောက်အောင်။ be shamefully treated. shamefulness n [U]
❏ shame sb into doing sth [PHRV ] အရှက်တရားရပြီး …စေသည်။ shame sb into apologizing.
❏ shameless adj (derog ) အရှက်မရှိ။ အရှက်ကင်းမဲ့သော။ shameless behaviour ❍ act in a shameless way.
❏ shamelessly adv အရှက်မရှိ။ shamelessness n [U]
❏ shame on you [IDM ] ရှက်ပြီးလဲသေဖို့ကောင်းတယ်။ How could you treat her so badly? Shame on you!
❏ shaming adj အရှက်ရသော။ အရှက်ကွဲသော။ The experience was deeply shaming for us all.

More examples
  • It seems a shame to waste all this food.
  • It was a shame that you couldn’t come with us.
  • [a great/crying/terrible shame] : It would have been a crying shame if we had lost the game.
  • [shame about] : It was a nice idea. Shame about the way it was done.
  • He speaks about his affair without shame.
  • [bow/hang your head in shame] : The people who let this happen should hang their heads in shame.
  • Has he no shame?
  • They accused her of bringing shame and disgrace on the family.
  • There is no shame in failing.
  • [to someone’s shame] : To their shame, they were proved wrong.
Synonyms
disgrace, embarrassment, dishonor, humiliation, indignity, ignominy, infamy, abash, abashment, bad conscience, blot, bring into disrepute, bring shame on, chagrin, compunction, confound, confusion, contempt, contrition, cut down to size, debase, defame, defile, degradation, degrade, derision, discomposure, disconcert, discredit, disesteem, disrepute, embarrass, give a black eye, guilt, humble, humiliate, ill repute, irritation, loss of face, make uncomfortable, mortification, mortify, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pang, pudency, remorse, reproach, ridicule, scandal, self-disgust, self-reproach, self-reproof, shamefacedness, shoot down, skeleton in the cupboard, smear, stain, stigma, stupefaction, take down, take down a peg, treachery
Antonyms
approval, be proud, clean, credit, elevate, esteem, flatter, honor, laud, meanness, praise, pride, promote, regard, respect, upgrade
Cross references
disgraceembarrassmentdishonorhumiliationindignityignominyinfamyabashabashmentbad conscienceblotbring into disreputebring shame onchagrincompunctionconfoundconfusioncontemptcontritioncut down to sizedebasedefamedefiledegradationdegradederisiondiscomposuredisconcert
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