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Definitions: Embarrassed |
EmbarrassedAdjective1. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums". 2. Caused to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable; "was discomfited by the personal questions"; "the child felt embarrassed by the attention of the adults". 3. Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "embarrassed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: EmbarrassedSynonyms: abashed (adj), chagrined (adj), discomfited (adj), humiliated (adj), mortified (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Debt | In debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent; (not paying); minus, out of pocket. |
Poverty | In want; Noun: needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved; (in debt); insolvent; (not paying). |
Bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Embarrassed |
| English words defined with "embarrassed": abash, abashed, abashment ♦ bashfulness ♦ chagrined ♦ discomfited ♦ embarrass, embarrassment ♦ humiliated ♦ Land-poor ♦ mortified ♦ shamefacedness, sheepishness, Stand of colors, Stick, straitened ♦ unabashed, Under the weather, unembarrassed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "embarrassed": Fish ♦ Horse ♦ In a fix ♦ junior debt ♦ Leopard ♦ Samples, subordinated debt. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, you mean the construction work that's going on. Yes, I'm very embarrassed about that. (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) Oh, gee, I embarrassed you, didn't I? (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) I've never been so embarrassed in my life! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow embarrassment? (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Billy, you don't have to be embarrassed if your dick gets hard. (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.) | |
Lyrics | I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd, ("Killing Me Softly With His Song"; performing artist: Roberta Flack) | |
Clever | If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Financially Embarrassed (1925) | |
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 | Throat; tonsils; vocal chords; clearing; attention-getting; stalling; embarrassed; embarrassment. |
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Homer | A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. |
Jean De La Bruyere | At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. |
Lord Byron | He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He stopt again, rose again, and seemed quite embarrassed. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They lived frugally, always with a little fire in the stove, but like people in embarrassed circumstances. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The children stopped, embarrassed. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You need not be embarrassed by incontinence. (references) | |
He or she also may have a headache and be confused or embarrassed. (references) | ||
That way, they'll be less embarrassed to talk about it if incontinence occurs. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | In one case, a station's report on the plight of homeless persons, including veterans of the Afghanistan war, embarrassed the local governor; the governor of the neighboring province, in which the station's transmitter was located, promptly informed the station manager that he was fired. (references) |
Human Rights | Turkmenistan | The new Hakim in Turkmenbashy told the leader of one of the NGO's that the harassment was ordered by his predecessor, who was embarrassed by a conference that the two NGO's held on the role of NGO's in the country. (references) |
Women | Armenia | Many cases were not reported to police because victims were afraid of physical harm if they do so, afraid that police would refuse to take action and instead return them to their husbands, or embarrassed to make "family matters" public. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Further portions of the Florida archives have been sent to the United States, although the death of one of the commissioners at a critical moment embarrassed the progress of the delivery of them. |
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| "Embarrassed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.27% of the time. "Embarrassed" is used about 1,069 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.27% | 890 | 8,005 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 12.52% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 4.21% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,069 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "embarrassed": be embarrassed ♦ become embarrassed ♦ feel embarrassed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "embarrassed": far-from-embarrassed, financially-embarrassed, red-embarrassed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
embarrassed | 51 |
embarrassed nude | 6 |
embarrassed naked | 5 |
embarrassed nude story | 3 |
embarrassed female nude | 2 |
embarrassed strip | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "embarrassed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i zënë ngushtë, i sikletosur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مورط (pickled), متحير (bewildered, confounded, confused, discomfited, distracted, nonplused, perplexed, puzzled), مرتبك (agitated, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy, upset), خجول (abashed, ashamed, backward, bashful, chary, coy, diffident, mean, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, sheep's, shrinking, shy, timid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смутен (abashed, confused, constrained, disconcerted, distraught, muddle-headed, muzzy, perplexed, perturbed, raddle, self conscious, sheepish, uneasy, unrestful), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), затруднен (catching, catchy, hard up, labored, laboured, snookered, straitened, troubled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 窘 (distressed), 尷尬 (awkward), 困窘 (Embarrass, Embarrassing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | v rozpacích (abashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaivautunut, nolo (baffled, discomfited). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | embarrassé, compliqué. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verwirrte (baffled, bemused, bewildered, deranged, disarranged, disconcerted, distracted, dizzyingly, flustered, muddled, perplexed), gehindert, betretene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμήχανοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבויש (ashamed, shamefaced, sheepish), אוב" עצות (helpless, perplexed), כלם (ashamed, confused, shamefaced, shy), בוך (bemused, bewildered, confused, foxed, hot under the collar, ill at ease, in a stew, perplexed, perturbed, self conscious, sheepish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zavart (abashed, be disconcerted, bewildered, disturbed, flustered, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled, self-conscious), feszélyezett (constrained, cramp, cramped, self-conscious, stiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vergognoso (ashamed, bashful, damnable, discreditable, disgraceful, opprobrious, shamefaced, shameful, shy, sinful, timid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 恥ずかしい (ashamed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもはゆい (abashed, bashful, self-conscious), きはずかしい (feeling ashamed or awkward), かおまけ (ashamed), はずかしい (ashamed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 당황하게 하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fud y cheilley (at variance, chaotic, confused, confusing, confusion, dishevelled, disorder, disordered, flustered, mixed up, muddle, muddled, perplexed, tangled, topsy-turvy), boirit (agitated, bothered, concerned, confused, disturbed, edgy, grieved, perplexed, pestered, preoccupied, teased, vexed, woeful, worried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maya | su'laktal (to be embarrassed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | embarrasseday impedir (arrest, avert, balk, block, clash, clog, cramp, cumber, dam, debar, delay, detain, estop, fetterless, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hinder, hobbledehoy, impede, intercept, interfere, let be, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put a stop, resist, restrain, set back, shackle, stop, thwart, trammel, withhold). (various references) strâmtorat (in reduced circumstance, moneyless), stingherit (ill at ease, uncomfortable, uneasy), stânjenit (cornered, ill at ease, uncomfortable, uneasy), jenat (abashed, ashamed, strange), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), înglodat în datorii, încurcat (daedal, difficult, foul, intricate, involved, matted, perplexed, perplexedly, puzzling, tangled, tortuous, winding). (various references) стесненный (cabined, straitened, stringent), смущенный (abashed, ablush, confused, disconcerted, taken aback). (various references) zbunjen (abashed, ablush, aghast, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, distraught, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical), postiđen (ashamed, shamefaced). (various references) turbado (disturbed, troubled), desconcertado (abashed, astounds, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, hot under the collar, perplexed, stumps, taken aback), avergonzado (abashed, ashamed, hangdog, shamefaced). (various references) generad (abashed, self conscious), förlägen (abashed, awkward, disconcerted, self-conscious, shy). (various references) ซึ่งลำบากใจ. (various references) eli darda (bad off, badly off, hard pressed, have a weak chest, on one's beam-ends), utangaç (bashful, coy, diffident, gawky, mean, pudent, retiring, shamefaced, shame-faced, shy, timid, timorous), sıkılgan (bashful, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid), mahçup (ashamed, confused, maidenly, mousy, pudent, retiring, shame-faced, timid). (various references) зekinmek (be afraid, feel shy). (various references) розгубитися (be at a loss, be in perplexity, become embarrassed). (various references) lúng túng (chancery, disconcerted, perplexed, sheepish, tongue). (various references) rhwystrus (confused). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "embarrassed": embarrassedly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "embarrassed": disembarrassed, unembarrassed. (additional references) | |
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"Embarrassed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embarased, embarasse, embarassed, embarazada, embaressed, embarrase, embarrased, embarrasse, embarresed, embarressed, emberassed, embrased, embrassed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "embarrassed" (pronounced embe"rust) |
| 6 | -b e" r u s t | barest. |
| 5 | -e" r u s t | aquarist, fairest, merest, rarest, terraced. |
| 4 | -r u s t | buttressed, dearest, deforest, direst, florist, forest, guitarist, interest, nearest, noninterest, poorest, psychiatrist, purest, rainforest, reforest, severest, surest, tourist. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, deepest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainiest, rapist, receptionist, reddest, refocused, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-m-r-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: demeraras, embarrass. | |
-3 letters: abraders, besmears, brassard, debasers, demerara, dreamers, embarred, madrases, redreams, smearers. | |
-4 letters: abasers, abrader, abrades, amassed, amasser, ambeers, arrased, arrases, bearers, besmear, brassed, breamed, debaser, debases, dreamer, dresser, erasers, readers, reamers, rearmed, redears, redream, redress, rereads, resedas, sabered, sambaed, sambars, sardars, seabeds, seamers, serdabs, smeared, smearer. | |
-5 letters: abased, abaser, abases, abrade, adeems, admass, ambeer, ambers, amebae, amebas, ameers, ardebs, armers, baases, badass, bardes, barred, barres, beamed, beards, bearer, bermes, breads, breams, bredes, breeds, damars, darers, dearer, debars, debase, dermas, dramas, dreams, drears, edemas, embars, embeds, embers, erased, eraser, erases, madras, madres, marred, marses, masers, massed, merdes, messed, radars, ramees, rasers, reader, reamed, reamer, reared, rearms, rebars, rebred, redear, remade, reread, reseda, sabers, sabras, sabred, sabres, sambar, sambas, sardar, sarees, sarsar, seabed, seamed, seamer, seared, searer, seders, serdab, sesame, smears. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-m-r-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: embarrassedly, unembarrassed. | |
+3 letters: disembarrassed, disembarrasses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 62 61 72 72 61 73 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- -... .- .-. .-. .- ... ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100010 01100001 01110010 01110010 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m b a r r a s s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0062 0061 0072 0072 0061 0073 0073 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979686784846785857170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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