- Types Of Speech
- You can use shamefaced as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Shamefaced
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 10 letters with the letters a, c, d, e, f, h, m, and s, 6 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ef. Shamefaced starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, sh, sha, sham, shame, and the ending characters are d, ed, ced, aced, faced, ..
- Definition
- Showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Compound Words
- A compound word, shamefaced has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are shame, and faced.
- Pig Latin
- Shamefaced in Pig Latin is said as "amefacedshay or amefacedshway".
- Unigram
- s | h | a | m | e | f | a | c | e | d
- Bigram
- sh | ha | am | me | ef | fa | ac | ce | ed
- Trigram
- sha | ham | ame | mef | efa | fac | ace | ced
- Quadrigram
- sham | hame | amef | mefa | efac | face | aced
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- showing a sense of guilt;
"a guilty look";
"the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater - showing a sense of shame
- extremely modest or shy;
"cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise"- H.O.Taylor
Synonym | Definition |
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Abashed | feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious "felt abashed at the extravagant praise" "chagrined at the poor sales of his book" "was embarrassed by her child''s tantrums" |
Accountable | liable to account for one''s actions "governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves" "fully accountable for what they did" "the court held the parents answerable for their minor child''s acts of vandalism" "he was answerable to no one" |
Admonished | punished especially by reproof or reprimand |
Amiss | in an imperfect or faulty way "The lobe was imperfectly developed" "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen |
Answerable | morally or legally responsible to a higher authority "parents are answerable for their child''s acts" |
Apologetic | offering or expressing apology "an apologetic note" "an apologetic manner" |
Arraignable | |
Ashamed | |
At Fault | |
Bashful | disposed to avoid notice "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren''t bashful about letting anybody know it" (`blate'' is a Scottish term for bashful) |
View all cognitive synonyms for Shamefaced
Anagram | Definition |
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Shamefaced | showing a sense of guilt "a guilty look" "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater |
View English words with the unique letters used in shamefaced. Words With The Letters Acdefhms
Similar Word | Definition |
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Ashamedp | n/a |
Shamefaced Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With D
- Spelled With / Contains Letters