shame
noun / interjection / adjective
Meaning
- nounAn uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
Example:
When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.
- interjectionA cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
- adjectiveEmbarrassed and shy, particularly because one is the subject of attention.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #338 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 87% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None