Associations to the word «Embarrassment»
Noun
- Glance
- Antic
- Acquaintance
- Circumstance
- Situation
- Impediment
- Hogg
- Consciousness
- Feel
- Agitation
- Smile
- Intercourse
- Pleasure
- Laugh
- Garion
- Confidence
- Vanity
- Grin
- Treasury
- Cassie
- Conversation
- Tenderness
- Outburst
- Pretext
- Salute
- Encouragement
- Incident
- Baptism
- Conformity
- Mademoiselle
- Fanny
- Athos
- Exertion
- Manoeuvre
- Memo
- Perrin
- Greeting
- Predicament
- Converse
- Gaze
- Disgrace
- Composure
- Amazement
- Madame
- Startling
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. (medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES, noun. (idiomatic) An abundance or overabundance of something; too much of a good thing.
Dictionary definition
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public.
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments".
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals".
EMBARRASSMENT, noun. Extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches".
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.