Synonyms of the word shameful


SHAMEFULBLACK - DISGRACEFUL - DISHONORABLE - DISHONOURABLE - IGNOMINIOUS - IMMORAL - INGLORIOUS - OPPROBRIOUS - SCANDALOUS - SHOCKING

shameful

  • adj. Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful.
  • adj. Giving offense.

black

  • adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  • adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
  • adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
  • adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  • adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
  • adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  • adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
  • adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
  • adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
  • adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
  • adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
  • adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
  • adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
  • adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
  • n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  • n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
  • n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
  • n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
  • n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
  • n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
  • n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
  • n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
  • n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
  • v. To make black, to blacken.
  • v. To apply blacking to something.
  • v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

disgraceful

  • adj. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
  • adj. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.

dishonorable

  • adj. Without honor, or causing dishonor.
  • adj. Lacking respect or ethical principles.

dishonourable

  • adj. Alternative spelling of dishonorable.

ignominious

  • adj. Marked by shame or disgrace.

immoral

  • adj. Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.

inglorious

  • adj. Ignominious; disgraceful.
  • adj. Not famous; obscure.

opprobrious

  • adj. Of or relating to opprobrium or disgrace.
  • adj. Tending to cause opprobrium.

scandalous

  • adj. wrong, immoral, causing a scandal.
  • adj. malicious, defamatory.

shocking

  • adj. Inspiring shock; startling.
  • adj. Unusually obscene or lewd.
  • adj. (colloquial) Extremely bad.
  • v. present participle of shock.
  • n. The application of an electric shock.

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