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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Emotional State
   • Excess
   • Shame
   • Trouble

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. embarrassmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   perplexity, difficulty, entanglement

2. embarrassmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   trouble, distress, vexation, plague

3. embarrassmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion, abashment

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1. embarrassmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   discomposure, chagrin, abashment, mortification, disconcertion

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1. List of paraphrases for "embarrassment":

   shame, disgrace, discomfort, quandary, embarrassing, awkwardness

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1. East Asia Nicholas Bequelin:

   It shows that China does have a bottom line when it comes to embarrassment on the world stage, there's a price that China is not ready to pay to enforce its prohibition on independent organizing.

2. Father Madonna:

   What really annoyed me is that when it first started people would switch off their phones in embarrassment; now they are cupping their hands over the receiver and carrying on talking.

3. Van Drew:

   My God, it is one of the darkest, most embarrassing days we’ve had in our country, and it’s a tremendous embarrassment for the Biden administration., but with this administration it is failure after failure after failure. Honest to God, I cannot believe I'm saying this, it literally is time for this president to resign. it is time for this vice president to resign. It is time for the Senate president and Speaker to resign. We need new people, even new Democrats, hopefully that are moderates. We can’t keep doing this.

4. Steven Barnett:

   It's another reason for questioning the judgment of Murdoch himself, because he must surely appreciate the political embarrassment caused at the time by her and those close to her.

5. Bradley Byrne:

   It's going to be hard to get elected in a Republican primary in Alabama when a Republican president with over 90 % approval rating among primary voters has said just the last few weeks that Jeff Sessions is an embarrassment to the great state of Alabama. He's going to have a hard time with that.