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Abashed vs Wellknown - What's the difference?

abashed | wellknown |

As adjectives the difference between abashed and wellknown

is that abashed is embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed while wellknown is (nonstandard).

As a verb abashed

is (abash).

abashed

English

Alternative forms

* abasht (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

    • Derived terms

    * abashedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abash)

    • wellknown

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (nonstandard)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 1, author=Mike Peed, title=The Persistence of Guilt, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Elie Wiesel has become so wellknown a crusader against hatred, violence and persecution that one can forget he has also been, from the beginning, a writer. }}