Shameful: Definition and part of speech

Shameful

  1. a. Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight.
  2. a. Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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