embarrassment

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noun

1. the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
shame
• Hyponyms:
self-consciousness, uneasiness, uncomfortableness, shamefacedness, sheepishness,
chagrin, humiliation, mortification, confusion, discombobulation, abashment,
bashfulness, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment
2. the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) (Freq. 1)
- he is currently suffering financial embarrassments
• Hypernyms:
emotional state, spirit
3. some event that causes someone to be embarrassed (Freq. 1)
- the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
• Ant:
disembarrassment
• Derivationally related forms:
embarrass
• Hypernyms:
trouble
4. extreme excess
- an embarrassment of riches
• Syn:
overplus, plethora, superfluity
• Derivationally related forms:
superfluous (for: superfluity), plethoric (for: plethora)
• Hypernyms:
excess, excessiveness, inordinateness
• Hyponyms:
redundancy, redundance

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  overplus, plethora, superfluity