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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

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. Eric Lipkin:

   To be part of the worst financial fraud ever is an embarrassment I'll have to live with for the rest of my life.

2. La Bruyere:

   We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

3. Pete Buttigieg:

   Together we are going to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America, our great country, being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people.

4. Rudy Giuliani:

   Every campaign finance expert, Republican and Democrat, will tell you that if it was for another purpose other than just campaigns, and even if it was for campaign purposes, if it was to save his family, to save embarrassment, it's not a campaign donation, and, second, even if it was a campaign donation, the President reimbursed it fully with a payment of $ 35,000 a month that paid for that and other expenses. No need to go beyond that. Case over.

5. Randolph Lee:

   His primary motive in pleading guilty today was to spare the children who would testify the trauma (and) the embarrassment.