embarrassment 音标拼音: [ɪmb'ɛrəsmənt]
n . 窘迫,使人为难的事物
窘迫,使人为难的事物
embarrassment n 1 :
the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public 2 :
the state of being embarrassed (
usually by some financial inadequacy ); "
he is currently suffering financial embarrassments "
3 :
some event that causes someone to be embarrassed ; "
the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals "
[
ant : {
disembarrassment }]
4 :
extreme excess ; "
an embarrassment of riches " [
synonym :
{
overplus }, {
plethora }, {
superfluity }, {
embarrassment }]
Embarrassment \
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n . [
F .
embarrassement .]
1 .
A state of being embarrassed ;
perplexity ;
impediment to freedom of action ;
entanglement ;
hindrance ;
confusion or discomposure of mind ,
as from not knowing what to do or to say ;
disconcertedness .
[
1913 Webster ]
The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper . --
W .
Irving .
[
1913 Webster ]
The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations . --
Bancroft .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts .
[
1913 Webster ]
201 Moby Thesaurus words for "
embarrassment ":
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abashment ,
absorption ,
agitation ,
awkwardness ,
baffle ,
bafflement ,
bashfulness ,
befuddlement ,
bewilderment ,
bind ,
bother ,
botheration ,
broken fortune ,
burden ,
burthen ,
cargo ,
chagrin ,
chaos ,
charge ,
cloud ,
clumsiness ,
clutch ,
comedown ,
complication ,
confoundment ,
confusion ,
constraint ,
coyness ,
cross ,
crunch ,
cumbrance ,
daze ,
deadweight ,
debasement ,
deflation ,
demureness ,
demurity ,
descent ,
difficulties ,
difficulty ,
dilemma ,
disadvantage ,
discombobulation ,
discomfiture ,
discomfort ,
discomposure ,
disconcert ,
disconcertedness ,
disconcertion ,
disconcertment ,
discountenance ,
disgrace ,
disorder ,
disorganization ,
disorientation ,
distress ,
disturbance ,
dump ,
embarrassing position ,
encumbrance ,
engagement ,
enigma ,
enmeshment ,
entanglement ,
excess ,
fine how -
do -
you -
do ,
fix ,
flummox ,
flurry ,
fluster ,
flutter ,
fog ,
freight ,
frenzy ,
fuddle ,
fuddlement ,
genteel poverty ,
hamper ,
handicap ,
hangdog look ,
hard pinch ,
hardship ,
haze ,
hell to pay ,
hobble ,
hot water ,
how -
do -
you -
do ,
humbled pride ,
humiliation ,
imbroglio ,
impecuniosity ,
impecuniousness ,
impediment ,
impedimenta ,
implication ,
imposition ,
inclusion ,
inconvenience ,
insolvency ,
involution ,
involvement ,
jam ,
jumble ,
letdown ,
light purse ,
load ,
lumber ,
maze ,
mess ,
mist ,
mix ,
morass ,
mortification ,
mousiness ,
muddle ,
muddlement ,
mystery ,
narrow means ,
nonplus ,
onus ,
oversupply ,
pack ,
parlous straits ,
pass ,
penalty ,
perplexity ,
perturbation ,
pickle ,
pinch ,
plight ,
poorness ,
pother ,
poverty ,
predicament ,
pretty pass ,
pretty pickle ,
pretty predicament ,
problem ,
profusion ,
pucker ,
put -
down ,
puzzle ,
puzzlement ,
quagmire ,
quandary ,
quicksand ,
relation ,
riddle ,
ruffle ,
scrape ,
self -
abasement ,
self -
abnegation ,
self -
consciousness ,
self -
diminishment ,
setdown ,
shame ,
shamefacedness ,
shamefastness ,
shuffle ,
shyness ,
skittishness ,
slender means ,
slough ,
spot ,
squeeze ,
stagefright ,
stammering ,
stew ,
sticky wicket ,
strain ,
strait ,
straitened circumstances ,
straits ,
superabundance ,
superfluity ,
surplus ,
swamp ,
sweat ,
swivet ,
tight spot ,
tight squeeze ,
tightrope ,
timidity ,
timidness ,
timorousness ,
tizzy ,
tricky spot ,
trouble ,
unassuredness ,
unease ,
uneasiness ,
unholy mess ,
unprosperousness ,
unsettlement ,
upset ,
vexation ,
voluntary poverty ,
vows of poverty ,
weight ,
white elephant
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