Mortified means deeply and painfully embarrassed. Absolutely mortified, mortified by it, she was mortified.
It is at the top of the embarrassment range — mortified is wishing the floor would open — and it is nearly always about your own behaviour rather than somebody else's. The word is grim underneath: it comes from the Latin for killing, and in medicine mortified flesh is dead flesh.
1adjectivemortifiedDeeply and painfully embarrassed.
“I was mortified when I realised I'd called my teacher 'Mum'.”
synonyms: humiliated, abashed
mortified is a state of embarrassment.