Answer to "Mortification" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHAME , but the solution may also be CHAGRIN which is one of the most recent solution (2002 in New York Times).

Mortification crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SHAME	50 %	5
CHAGRIN	33 %	7
PENANCE	17 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mortification

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• humiliation
• chagrin
• mortifying
• embarrassment
• mortify
• embarassment
• vexation
• repugnance
• agony
• discomfiture
• anguish
• mortified

Crossword Answer definitions

SHAME noun

1. Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
2. Something to regret.
3. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
4. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
5. That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.

SHAME interjection

1. A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
2. Expressing sympathy.

SHAME verb

1. To cause to feel shame.
2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
3. To drive or compel by shame.
4. To feel shame, be ashamed.
5. To mock at; to deride.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SHAME

• Dishonor
• Show up
• Put to __ (outdo)
• Helping of humble pie
• Flush causer
• Ignominy
• Salman Rushdie novel
• Disgrace
• Make blush
• Public humiliation

More clues leading to the result CHAGRIN

• Embarrassed feeling after failing
• Feeling of vexation
• Dismay
• Humiliation
• Feeling caused by failure
• Mortification.
• Mental disquietude from wounded pride.
• Feeling of disappointment.
• Vexation
• Embarrassment

More clues leading to the result PENANCE

• Confession follow-up
• Act of contrition
• Atonement
• Sinner's punishment
• Catholic sacrament
• What a person in a hair shirt is probably doing
• Atonement for sins
• Hail Marys, often
• Catholic sacrament of confession and forgiveness
• Something to do