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awkward
English
Etymology
From awk (“odd, clumsy”) +? -ward.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???kw?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??kw?d/
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??kw?d/
- Hyphenation: awk?ward
Adverb
awkward (comparative more awkward, superlative most awkward)
- (obsolete) In a backwards direction.
- :
- Than groned the knyght for his grymme woundis, and gyrdis to Sir Gawayne and awkewarde hym strykes, and […] kut thorow a vayne […].
- :
Adjective
awkward (comparative awkwarder or more awkward, superlative awkwardest or most awkward)
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Synonyms: clumsy, lubberly, ungraceful, unhandy
- Antonyms: dexterous, gainly, graceful, handy, skillful
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
- Synonym: maladroit
- Antonyms: amiable, cool
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
awkward (plural awkwards)
- Someone or something that is awkward.
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shame
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English schame, from Old English s?amu, from Proto-Germanic *skam?.
Noun
shame (usually uncountable, plural shames)
- 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.
- Something to regret.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- And what you do to me is a shame.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- […] because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,
- 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour
- And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring sister's shame.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
- guides who are the shame of religion
- That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
- And he took fig leaves and sewed them together and made an apron for himself. And he covered his shame.
- 1991, Martha Graham, Blood Memory, Washington Square Press
- She turns to lift her robe, and lays it across her as though she were revealing her shame, as though she were naked.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
Synonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): dishonor
- (something regrettable): dishonor, humiliation, mortification, pity
- See also: Thesaurus:shame
Antonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): honor
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
shame
- A 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.
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- Mr John Golding: One would not realise that it came from the same Government, because in that letter the Under-Secretary states: "The future of BT's pension scheme is a commercial matter between BT, its workforce, and the trustees of the pensions scheme, and the Government cannot give any guarantees about future pension arrangements."
- Mr. Charles R. Morris: Shame.
- 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
- [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever — (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
- Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English schamen, from Old English s?amian, from Proto-West Germanic *skam?n, from Proto-Germanic *skam?n?.
Verb
shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed)
- (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
- Were there but one righteous in the world, he would […] shame the world, and not the world him.
- To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
- (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.
- Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
Synonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): demean, humiliate, insult, mortify
Antonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): honor, dignify
Derived terms
- ashamed
- beshame
- (sense: to cause to feel shame) creep-shame
- name and shame
Translations
References
- shame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Hames, Shema, ahems, haems, hames, heams
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