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shameful

adj
/ˈʃeɪmfəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skamō Proto-West Germanic *skamu Old English sċamu Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Old English sċeomfull Middle English schameful English shameful From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).

  1. inherited from *sċeamfull✻
  2. inherited from schameful

Definitions

  1. Causing or meriting shame or disgrace

    Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful

    • shameful publicity
    • a shameful act
    • "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."

  2. Giving offense.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonshameful, shamefully, shamefulness, unshameful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shameful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at shameful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at shameful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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