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embarrassment

(ɪmbærəsmənt)
Word forms: plural embarrassments
1. variable noun
Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low. [+ to]
I think I would have died of embarrassment.
We apologise for any embarrassment this may have caused.
Synonyms: shame, distress, showing up [informal], humiliation More Synonyms of embarrassment
2. countable noun
An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president. [+ to]
Synonyms: problem, difficulty, nuisance, source of trouble More Synonyms of embarrassment
3. singular noun
If you refer to a person as an embarrassment, you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
[disapproval]
You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you. [+ to]
4. 
See embarrassment of riches
More Synonyms of embarrassment

embarrassment in British English

(ɪmˈbærəsmənt)
noun
1. 
the state of being embarrassed
2. 
something that embarrasses
3. 
a financial predicament
4. 
an excessive amount; superfluity

More idioms containing
embarrassment

an embarrassment of riches

COBUILD Collocations
embarrassment

cause embarrassment
further embarrassment

Examples of 'embarrassment' in a sentence
embarrassment

It is thought players will now have a curfew to return to the team hotel to avoid any future embarrassment.
The Sun (2016)
The incident caused huge embarrassment within the upper echelons of the royal family.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Midfield offers a veritable embarrassment of riches.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The failure to bring broadband to the countryside has been an embarrassment for the government.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Police acknowledge that they may cause embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Two grand seems a snip to avoid such embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
What is already a political embarrassment could turn into an economic nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The alternative would be a national embarrassment and a betrayal of our future.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This must not just be swept under the carpet to save the police further embarrassment.
The Sun (2011)
It means embarrassment on behalf of others.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
That was a huge embarrassment to bosses as traders prize reliability.
The Sun (2013)
City have an embarrassment of riches at their disposal.
The Sun (2009)
Please do not redeem this voucher against any other product as refusal to accept may cause embarrassment.
The Sun (2013)
To avoid embarrassment an assistant would call his mobile phone as soon as he closed his eyes.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He had averted a major political embarrassment.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
Now his regime is a source of national embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He should throw in the towel to spare himself further embarrassment.
The Sun (2008)
But it has also caused much public embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
That should have been to the party 's lasting embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
With the burden on the shoulders of business is the Government free of embarrassment?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He is a disaster, an embarrassment to his party and the sooner they get rid of him the better.
The Sun (2011)
They have become an embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Which doesn't sound much of a financial embarrassment any more, does it?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It can result in loss of employment opportunities, perceptions of damage to reputation, financial difficulties and embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

In other languages
embarrassment

British English: embarrassment NOUN
Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
I think I would have died of embarrassment.
  • American English: embarrassment
  • Brazilian Portuguese: constrangimento
  • Chinese: 尴尬
  • European Spanish: vergüenza
  • French: gêne
  • German: Verlegenheit
  • Italian: imbarazzo
  • Japanese: きまり悪さ
  • Korean: 무안함
  • European Portuguese: constrangimento
  • Latin American Spanish: vergüenza

All related terms of 'embarrassment'

cause embarrassment
Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed .
further embarrassment
An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician , political party, government, or other public group.
embarrassment of riches
If you say that someone has an embarrassment of riches , you mean that they have so many good things that these things are a problem .
an embarrassment of riches
so many good things that you cannot choose between them, or that they become a problem for you in some other way
embarras de richesses
a superfluous abundance of options , from which one finds it difficult to select

Chinese translation of 'embarrassment'

embarrassment

(ɪmˈbærəsmənt)

n

  1. (u) (= feeling) 难(難)堪 (nánkān)
  2. (c) (= situation, problem) 令人为(為)难(難)的事情 (lìng rén wéinán de shìqíng) (个(個), gè)
  3. (c) (= person) 使人为(為)难(難)的人 (shǐ rén wéinán de rén) (个(個), gè)
    to be an embarrassment to sb 是令某人困窘的人/事 (shì lìng mǒurén kùnjiǒng de rén/shì)
1 (noun) 
We apologize for any embarrassment this statement may have caused.
Synonyms
shame
I was, to my shame, a coward.
distress
showing up (informal)
humiliation
He suffered the humiliation of bankruptcy.
discomfort
unease
chagrin
Much to his chagrin, she didn't remember him at all.
self-consciousness
awkwardness
It was a moment of some awkwardness in our relationship.
mortification
The chairman tried to hide his mortification.
discomfiture
I have never found pleasure in another's discomfiture.
bashfulness
Suddenly overcome with bashfulness, he lowered his voice.
discomposure
2 (noun) 
The latest figures were an embarrassment to the president.
Synonyms
problem
difficulty
The main difficulty has been getting enough students to try out the scheme.
nuisance
He can be a bit of a nuisance when he's drunk.
It's a real nuisance having to pick up the kids from school every day.
source of trouble
thorn in your flesh
3 (noun) 
He is in a state of temporary financial embarrassment.
Synonyms
predicament
The decision will leave her in a predicament.
problem
the economic problems of the inner city
difficulty
mess (informal)
I've got myself into a bit of a mess.
jam (informal)
It could get the government out of a jam.
plight
the plight of Third World countries plagued by debts
scrape (informal)
We got into terrible scrapes.
pickle (informal)
Connie had got herself into a real pickle this time.

idiom

See an embarrassment of riches

Additional synonyms

in the sense of awkwardness
It was a moment of some awkwardness in our relationship.
Synonyms
embarrassment,
difficulty,
discomfort,
delicacy,
unpleasantness,
inconvenience,
stickiness (informal),
painfulness,
ticklishness,
uphill (South Africa),
thorniness,
inopportuneness,
perplexingness,
untimeliness
in the sense of bashfulness
Suddenly overcome with bashfulness, he lowered his voice.
Synonyms
shyness,
reserve,
embarrassment,
constraint,
hesitation,
modesty,
nervousness,
lack of confidence,
reticence,
self-consciousness,
timidity,
diffidence,
coyness,
timorousness,
mousiness,
sheepishness,
timidness
in the sense of chagrin
Definition
a feeling of annoyance and disappointment
Much to his chagrin, she didn't remember him at all.
Synonyms
annoyance,
embarrassment,
humiliation,
dissatisfaction,
disquiet,
displeasure,
mortification,
discomfiture,
vexation,
discomposure,
irritation,
spleen,
ill-humour,
peevishness,
fretfulness

Synonyms of 'embarrassment'

embarrassment

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