shamelike

adj

Etymology

From shame + -like.

  1. inherited from *skamāną
  2. inherited from *skamēn
  3. inherited from sċamian
  4. inherited from schamen
  5. suffixed as shamelike — “shame + like

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of shame.

    • Losses of any kind seem to evoke shamelike responses in the infant. This is particularly true of loss of the familiar.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shamelike. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA