Meanings
- not comparablefeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
"How else shall we go back unashamed to our women?"
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC3 more examples
And smiling as a Master smiles at one / That is not of his school, nor any school / But that where blind and naked Ignorance / Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, / On all things all day long ; he answer’d her.
1862, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Vivien”, in The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, page 266There is a similarity between the dynamics of the streets of New York and the dynamics of a Latin American plaza. Menendez suggests that they both capture a fascination with fashion, the appreciation for that which is done merely for effect, its unashamed desire to squander it all.
1990 September 1, Norma Romano-Benner, “Shaping the ’90s”, in AmericasCritics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishashamed
- Englishunashamed
Translations
Finnish häpeämätön
- häpeämätönfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
French éhonté
- éhontéfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
German schamlos, unverhohlen
- schamlosfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- unverhohlenfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- ungeniertfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
Polish bez wstydu
- bez wstydufeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
Portuguese desavergonhado
- desavergonhadofeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
Russian бессо́вестный, бессты́дный
- бессо́вестный (bessóvestnyj)feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- бессты́дный (besstýdnyj)feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- бессты́жий (besstýžij)feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- беззасте́нчивый (bezzasténčivyj)feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- бесцеремо́нный (besceremónnyj)feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
Spanish desvergonzado
- desvergonzadofeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
Swedish ogenerad, oförskämd
- ogeneradfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- oförskämdfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- hutlösfeeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
Cite this entry
unashamed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unashamed
“unashamed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unashamed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unashamed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unashamed.
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