shamesome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
An appropriate level of shame.
Example Sentences
- ""Phew!" he thought, "it's all a notion of ye, man, and a shamesome notion. […]""
- "'And look where it's got you,' said Grumpa. 'Living next door to peeples! It's shamesome. […]"
- "The premise was that too little shame is just as bad as too much shame, but there is a happy medium, which he termed “shamesome”."
Etymology
From shame + -some.
Inflected Forms
more shamesome (comparative)
most shamesome (superlative)