英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst/

形容詞

shamefaced (comparative more shamefaced, superlative most shamefaced)

1. Bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment.
   • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎, New York: Henry Holt and Company:

     Youth is not glorious; it is shamefaced. It is a time of self-searching and self-exacerbation.

2. Ashamed, displaying shame, especially by blushing in the face.

派生語

参照

• “shamefaced” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.