mortified
(Medical)
[adjective]
Synonyms: humiliated, ashamed, chagrined, chastened, crushed, deflated, embarrassed, humbled, shamed

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Related Words: annoyed, harassed, harried, worried

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English Thesaurus: ashamed, humiliated, mortified, shamefaced, feel guilty, ...

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mor‧ti‧fied /ˈmɔːtəfaɪd, ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd $ ˈmɔːr-/ adjective
extremely offended, ashamed, or embarrassed
mortified to hear/find etc
Nora was mortified to discover that her daughter had been out drinking.
—mortification /ˌmɔːtəfəˈkeɪʃən, ˌmɔːtɪfəˈkeɪʃən $ ˌmɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]

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ashamed [not before noun] feeling very sorry and embarrassed because of something you have done, or someone connected with you has done:
You should be ashamed of yourself.
She felt deeply ashamed of her son’s behaviour.
humiliated [not before noun] very ashamed and upset, because someone has made you look weak or stupid, especially in front of other people:
I came out of the class feeling humiliated.
mortified /ˈmɔːtəfaɪd, ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd $ ˈmɔːr-/ extremely ashamed and embarrassed, especially about something you have done accidentally:
She’ll be mortified when she realizes her mistake.
a mortified expression
shamefaced showing by the expression on your face that you are ashamed about something:
Paul came into my office looking shamefaced and apologized for what he had done.
feel guilty (also feel bad especially spoken) to feel worried and unhappy because you know that you have done something wrong. Feel bad is more informal than feel guilty:
He felt guilty about lying to his parents.
I felt bad about letting the team down.
lose face to lose people’s respect for you, especially by doing something that makes you look weak or stupid in front of other people:
He feels he’ll lose face if he admits to his staff that he was wrong.

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embarrassed feeling uncomfortable or nervous and worrying about what people think of you, for example because you have made a silly mistake, or because you have to talk or sing in public:
I was really embarrassed when I arrived at the party an hour early.
There’s no need to be embarrassed – you’ve got a lovely voice.
self-conscious embarrassed about your body or the way you look or talk:
Paul had always been self-conscious about his big feet.
uncomfortable unable to relax because you are embarrassed and not sure what to say or do:
There was a long silence and everyone at the table looked uncomfortable.
awkward /ˈɔːkwəd $ ˈɒːkwərd/ feeling embarrassed because you are in a situation in which it is difficult to behave naturally:
Teenagers often feel awkward in formal social situations.
There were some awkward moments when neither of us knew what to say to each other.
sheepish slightly embarrassed because you know that you have done something silly or because you feel a little guilty:
Nigel came in late looking sheepish and apologetic.
red-faced embarrassed or ashamed – used mainly in newspaper reports:
A judge was left red-faced when his mobile phone rang in court.
mortified [not before noun] extremely embarrassed and ashamed because you realize that you have done something very silly or wrong:
He said he was mortified at the way his comments had been reported in the papers.

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