Embarrassment

Noun

 * 1) A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
 * 2) A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
 * 3) A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
 * ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
 * ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
 * 1)  Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.

Derived terms

 * embarrassment of riches

Adjectives for Embarrassment
visible; flattering; painful; evident; pecuniary; nervous; tingling; angry; secret; acute; considerable; strange.

Verbs for Embarrassment
betray—; blush in—; conceal—; contribute to—; ease—; flush in—; guard against—; lead to—; manifest—; pardon—; relieve—; —hinders; —prevents; —silences.

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

Etymology
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Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ته‌ریقی


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: vergüenza, corte , pena  , plancha  , pudor  , roche


 * Finnish: hämmennys


 * Finnish: hämmennys