Synonyms for shameful
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Disgraceful
disgraceful, scandalous, dishonorable US, dishonourable UK, reprehensible, despicable, embarrassing, shocking, pathetic, contemptible, heinous, vile, outrageous, ignoble, atrocious, wretched, gross, unbecoming, unworthy, miserable, foul, woeful, disreputable
2. Inglorious
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
- adj. 2
Giving offense.
Related words
- Word family
- shamefully shamefulness
Example sentences
- embarrassing Fancy forgetting my glasses, it's so embarrassing.
- shocking An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction.
- disgraceful They abandoned us in the most disgraceful manner.
- scandalous Did you read this journalist's scandalous article?
- inglorious Only miserable and inglorious death awaits you here.
- ignominious Tom's ignominious behavior is a disgrace to all of us.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| shameful | rising | |
| embarrassing | rising | |
| shocking | rising | |
| disgraceful | steady | |
| scandalous | rising | |
| inglorious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- dark1, foul1, vile1
- 5 letters
- black1, gross1
- 6 letters
- woeful2
- 7 letters
- heinous2, ignoble3
- 8 letters
- shocking2, pathetic3, wretched2, unworthy3
- 9 letters
- miserable4, degrading3, atrocious3
- 10 letters
- outrageous3, despicable4, scandalous3, unbecoming4, inglorious4, shamefaced
- 11 letters
- disgraceful3, ignominious5, opprobrious
- 12 letters
- embarrassing4, dishonorable5, contemptible4, disreputable5
- 13 letters
- reprehensible5, dishonourable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (woeful2 = 2 syllables).