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Ashamed vs Unashamed - What's the difference?

ashamed | unashamed |

As adjectives the difference between ashamed and unashamed

is that ashamed is feeling shame or guilt while unashamed is feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse.

As a verb ashamed

is past tense of ashame.

ashamed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling shame or guilt.

    • Antonyms

    * proud

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ashame)

    • unashamed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
    • Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.