'Embarrassment' definitions:
Definition of 'embarrassment'
From: WordNet
noun
The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
noun
The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"
noun
Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals" [ant: disembarrassment]
noun
Definition of 'Embarrassment'
From: GCIDE
- Embarrassment \Em*bar"rass*ment\, n. [F. embarrassement.]
- 1. A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness. [1913 Webster]
- The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'embarrassment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abasement,
- abashment,
- absorption,
- agitation,
- awkwardness,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- bashfulness,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bind,
- bother,
- botheration,
- broken fortune,
- burden,
- burthen,
- cargo,
- chagrin,
- chaos,
- charge,
- cloud,
- clumsiness,
- clutch,
- comedown,
- complication,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- constraint,
- coyness,
- cross,
- crunch,
- cumbrance,
- daze,
- deadweight,
- debasement,
- deflation,
- demureness,
- demurity,
- descent,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- dilemma,
- disadvantage,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomfort,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disgrace,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dump,
- embarrassing position,
- encumbrance,
- engagement,
- enigma,
- enmeshment,
- entanglement,
- excess,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fix,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- freight,
- frenzy,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- genteel poverty,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- hangdog look,
- hard pinch,
- hardship,
- haze,
- hell to pay,
- hobble,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- imbroglio,
- impecuniosity,
- impecuniousness,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- implication,
- imposition,
- inclusion,
- inconvenience,
- insolvency,
- involution,
- involvement,
- jam,
- jumble,
- letdown,
- light purse,
- load,
- lumber,
- maze,
- mess,
- mist,
- mix,
- morass,
- mortification,
- mousiness,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- mystery,
- narrow means,
- nonplus,
- onus,
- oversupply,
- pack,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- penalty,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- poorness,
- pother,
- poverty,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- problem,
- profusion,
- pucker,
- put-down,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- quagmire,
- quandary,
- quicksand,
- relation,
- riddle,
- ruffle,
- scrape,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-consciousness,
- self-diminishment,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shuffle,
- shyness,
- skittishness,
- slender means,
- slough,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stagefright,
- stammering,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- strain,
- strait,
- straitened circumstances,
- straits,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- surplus,
- swamp,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- timidity,
- timidness,
- timorousness,
- tizzy,
- tricky spot,
- trouble,
- unassuredness,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unholy mess,
- unprosperousness,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vexation,
- voluntary poverty,
- vows of poverty,
- weight,
- white elephant