Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Embarrassed   /ɪmbˈɛrəst/   Listen
Embarrassed

adjective
1.
Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.  Synonyms: abashed, chagrined.  "Chagrined at the poor sales of his book" , "Was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"
2.
Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride.  Synonyms: humiliated, mortified.  "Humiliated that his wife had to go out to work" , "Felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"



Embarrass

verb
(past & past part. embarrassed; pres. part. embarrassing)
1.
Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious.  Synonym: abash.
2.
Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of.  Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy.



Related search:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Embarrassed" Quotes from Famous Books



... was at Guiney's station on the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad. The supplies there were but slightly guarded, and could easily have been captured. Had this been done, Lee would have been seriously embarrassed, notwithstanding his victory, and forced to fall back to ...
— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday

... men ate and joked with Mrs. Bailey. And Mrs. Bailey, good woman, was no less eloquent than the men in describing the outlaw's unenviable temperament, never dreaming that the men would allow a boy of Pete's years to ride the horse. Pete, a bit embarrassed in this lively company, attended heartily to his plate. He gathered, indirectly, that he was expected to demonstrate his ability as a rider, sooner or later. He hoped ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... can to please her, sir. And so she is really master's grandchild?" The woman fixed her eyes, as she spoke, so intently on Morton, that he felt embarrassed, and busied himself, without answering, in caressing and soothing Fanny, who now seemed to awake to the affliction about to visit her; for though she did not weep—she very rarely wept—her slight frame trembled—her eyes closed—her cheeks, ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 3 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... As it was, she again gave me her cheek to kiss, in her father's presence, and called me dear John, and asked me specially after some rabbits which I had kept at home merely for a younger sister; and then it seemed as though she were in no way embarrassed by the peculiar circumstances of our position. Twelve months since I had asked her to be my wife, and now she was to give me an answer; and yet she was as assured in her gait, and as serenely joyous in her tone, as though I were a brother ...
— John Bull on the Guadalquivir from Tales from all Countries • Anthony Trollope

... embarrassed. Clara moved her head a little, so as to regard him, but at once turned away, shrinkingly, when she met ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com