Antonyms of adj ashamed

1 sense of ashamed

Sense 1
ashamed (predicate) (vs. unashamed) -- (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat")

unashamed (vs. ashamed) -- (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
        => audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent -- (unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell)
        => shameless, unblushing -- (feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing apologist for fascism")
        => unabashed, unembarrassed -- (not embarrassed; "a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality"- Jerome Stone; "an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing untoward had happened")

Similarity of adj ashamed

1 sense of ashamed

Sense 1
ashamed (predicate) (vs. unashamed) -- (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat")
       => discredited, disgraced, dishonored, shamed -- (suffering shame)
       => embarrassed, humiliated, mortified -- (made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister")
       => guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed -- (showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater)
       => shamefaced, sheepish -- (showing a sense of shame)
          Also See-> penitent#1, repentant#1

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