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Synonyms for embarrassment
ɛmˈbær əs məntem·bar·rass·ment

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. embarrassment

    Perplexity (Latin per, through, and plecto, plait) is the drawing or turning of the thoughts or faculties by turns in different directions or toward contrasted or contradictory conclusions; confusion (Latin confusus, from confundo, pour together) is a state in which the mental faculties are, as it were, thrown into chaos, so that the clear and distinct action of the different powers, as of perception, memory, reason, and will is lost; bewilderment is akin to confusion, but is less overwhelming, and more readily recovered from; perplexity, accordingly, has not the unsettling of the faculties implied in confusion, nor the overwhelming of the faculties implied in amazement or astonishment; it is not the magnitude of the things to be known, but the want of full and definite knowledge, that causes perplexity. The dividing of a woodland path may cause the traveler the greatest perplexity, which may become bewilderment when he has tried one path after another and lost his bearings completely. With an excitable person bewilderment may deepen into confusion that will make him unable to think clearly or even to see or hear distinctly. Amazement results from the sudden and unimagined occurrence of great good or evil or the sudden awakening of the mind to unthought-of truth. Astonishment often produces bewilderment, which the word was formerly understood to imply. Compare AMAZEMENT; ANXIETY; DOUBT.

    Synonyms:
    amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, confusion, distraction, disturbance, doubt, doubt, perplexity

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. embarrassmentnoun

    the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

    Synonyms:
    plethora, overplus, superfluity

    Antonyms:
    disembarrassment

  2. embarrassmentnoun

    the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)

    "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"

    Synonyms:
    plethora, overplus, superfluity

    Antonyms:
    disembarrassment

  3. embarrassmentnoun

    some event that causes someone to be embarrassed

    "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"

    Synonyms:
    plethora, overplus, superfluity

    Antonyms:
    disembarrassment

  4. overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassmentnoun

    extreme excess

    "an embarrassment of riches"

    Synonyms:
    plethora, overplus, superfluity

    Antonyms:
    disembarrassment

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. embarrassmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    perplexity, difficulty, entanglement

  2. embarrassmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    trouble, distress, vexation, plague

  3. embarrassmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    confusion, abashment

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. embarrassmentnoun

    Synonyms:
    discomposure, chagrin, abashment, mortification, disconcertion

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "embarrassment":

    shame, disgrace, discomfort, quandary, embarrassing, awkwardness

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#3643doubt
#7453confusion
#8184shame
#14374disturbance
#17321discomfort
#19258embarrassing
#23170embarrassment
#23309distraction
#26615disgrace
#28706plethora
#34316amazement
#41108astonishment
#58056quandary
#74750bewilderment
#76733awkwardness
#77127perplexity
#217114superfluity

How to use embarrassment in a sentence?

  1. Charles Krauthammer:

    He does not want that embarrassment, i think he’ll hold the 10,000. I think that’s the right policy. And he wants to dump it in the lap of the next president.

  2. Democratic House manager Zoe Lofgren:

    And again, in case Democratic House needs a reminder, Democratic House's improper to keep something classified just to avoid embarrassment or to conceal wrongdoing.

  3. President Trump:

    What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country.

  4. Amesh Adalja:

    We are fighting a disease now in 2019 that should have been off the table in the 1960s with the development of the vaccine, it should be viewed as an embarrassment that so many Americans have turned away from vaccines that we are having a record year for measles.

  5. Laurence Peter:

    Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.


Translations for embarrassment

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  • притеснение, стеснение, объркване, смущениеBulgarian
  • avergonyimentCatalan, Valencian
  • VerlegenheitGerman
  • vergüenzaSpanish
  • kiusaantuneisuus, häpeäpilkku, häpeäksi, nolostuminen, hämmennys, häpeäFinnish
  • (être la) honte (de), embarrasFrench
  • rasa maluIndonesian
  • imbarazzoItalian
  • ته‌ریقیKurdish
  • verlegenheidDutch
  • jenăRomanian
  • затрудне́ние, замеша́тельство, конфу́з, позо́р, поме́ха, позо́рище, смуще́ниеRussian
  • 困窘Chinese

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