Emotions

Synonyms for ashamed

The synonym for ashamed recorded in this bank is guilty, in the sense "feeling embarrassment or guilt over one's actions". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for ashamed

guiltyadjective, in the sense "feeling embarrassment or guilt over one's actions"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day ashamed is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 1, FoothillsEmotions

feeling embarrassment or guilt over one's actions

He felt ashamed after he was caught lying to his best friend.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

guilty

Same sentence, swapped: He felt guilty after he was caught lying to his best friend.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for ashamed in the sentence quoted.

proud
indifferent
amused

Where ashamed turns up in the game

ashamed is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where ashamed is the trap

hopefuladjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is optimistic, in the sense "feeling or expressing optimism about a future outcome", and ashamed is on the board beside it.
jealousadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is envious, in the sense "feeling resentful envy of someone's achievements or advantages", and ashamed is on the board beside it.

Play ashamed

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ashamed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ashamed carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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