self-abased

English

Etymology

self- +‎ abased

Adjective

self-abased (comparative more self-abased, superlative most self-abased)

1. Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “self-abased”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)