MORTIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mortified mean? 

• MORTIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective MORTIFIED has 2 senses:

1. suffering from tissue death

2. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

  Familiarity information: MORTIFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORTIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from tissue death

Synonyms:

gangrenous; mortified

Similar:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

Synonyms:

embarrassed; humiliated; mortified

Context example:

felt mortified by the comparison with her sister

Similar:

ashamed (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse)

 Context examples 

“—Mrs. Weston, I suppose,” interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You mustn’t look so mortified, nephew,” said my uncle, smiling.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Gloves are more important than anything else. You can't dance without them, and if you don't I should be so mortified."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He joined her within five minutes after Julia's exit; and though she made the best of the story, he was evidently mortified and displeased in no common degree.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It cannot be doubted that Sir Walter and Elizabeth were shocked and mortified by the loss of their companion, and the discovery of their deception in her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“That is very true,” replied Elizabeth, “and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her parents, seeing nothing in her ill looks and agitation but the natural consequence of mortified feelings, and of the unusual exertion and fatigue of such a journey, parted from her without any doubt of their being soon slept away; and though, when they all met the next morning, her recovery was not equal to their hopes, they were still perfectly unsuspicious of there being any deeper evil.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"I was knocked down," was the blunt explanation, jerked out of me by another pang of mortified pride; "but that did not make me ill," I added; while Mr. Lloyd helped himself to a pinch of snuff.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe, in those solitary walks, that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me, but would hop about within a yard’s distance, looking for worms and other food, with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She was mortified, shocked, confounded.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)