Meaning of EMBARRASSMENT
| Pronunciation: | | em'barusmunt
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- [n] extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
- [n] some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"
- [n] the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- [n] the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"
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| | Synonyms: | | nimiety, overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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| | Antonyms: | | disembarrassment | | |
| | See Also: | | abashment, bashfulness, chagrin, confusion, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment, emotional state, excess, excessiveness, humiliation, inordinateness, mortification, redundance, redundancy, self-consciousness, shame, shamefacedness, sheepishness, spirit, trouble, uncomfortableness, uneasiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have
often to express themselves upon paper. --W. Irving.
The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the
late regulations. --Bancroft.
2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to
pay debts.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are embarrassed means hidden weaknesses, fears and lack of self-confidence. This dream also suggests of insecurities about your sexuality. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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