NOUN | feeling | embarrassment | the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public |
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state | embarrassment | the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | |
event | embarrassment | some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | |
attribute | embarrassment, overplus, plethora, superfluity | extreme / extreme excess |
Sounds | ihmbeh'rahsmahnt | |
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Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... |
Meaning | The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public. | |
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Narrower | abashment, bashfulness | Feeling embarrassed due to modesty |
chagrin, humiliation, mortification | Strong feelings of embarrassment | |
confusion, discombobulation | A feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused / confused / confused | |
discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment | anxious embarrassment | |
self-consciousness, uneasiness, uncomfortableness | embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you | |
shamefacedness, sheepishness | Feeling embarrassed about yourself | |
Broader | shame | A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt |
Catalan | vergonya |
Meaning | The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy). | |
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Example | "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments" | |
Broader | emotional state, spirit | The state / state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) |
Spanish | azoramiento, desconcierto, turbación | |
Catalan | avergonyiment, desconcert, torbació, torbament |
Meaning | Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed. | |
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Example | "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals" | |
Broader | trouble | An event causing distress / distress or pain |
Opposite | disembarrassment | Something that extricates you from embarrassment |
Verbs | embarrass | cause to be embarrassed |
Meaning | extreme / extreme excess. | |
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Example | "an embarrassment of riches" | |
Synonyms | overplus, plethora, superfluity | |
Narrower | redundancy, redundance | The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded |
Broader | excess, excessiveness, inordinateness | immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits |
Spanish | demasía, plétora, superfluidad | |
Catalan | demesia, plètora, superfluïtat |
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