Embarrassment Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕm-bărəs-mənt
Anything that embarrasses
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. excess
  2. mistake
  3. blunder
  4. faux-pas
  5. awkwardness
  6. clumsiness
  7. indebtedness
  8. uncertainty
  9. gaucherie
  10. hindrance
  11. excessiveness
  12. poverty
  13. impecuniosity
  14. destitution
  15. exorbitance
  16. distress
  17. difficulties
  18. involvement
  19. extravagance
  20. intricacy
  21. obligation
  22. crude action
  23. extravagancy
  24. stupid action
  25. indiscretion
  26. default
  27. debt
  28. extravagantness
  29. awkward situation
  30. predicament
  31. dilemma
  32. overabundance
  33. puzzle
  34. perplexity
  35. tangle
  36. plethora
  37. strait
  38. pinch
  39. quandary
  40. superabundance
  41. plight
  42. fix
  43. hot-seat
  44. hot water
  45. superfluity
  46. pickle
  47. skeleton-in-the-closet
  48. superfluousness
  49. surfeit
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Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. ashamed
  2. discountenanced
  3. embarrassed
  4. out of countenance

Words Related to Embarrassment

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Embarrassment Sentence Examples

  • They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  • There was no guilt or embarrassment in the thought.

  • Unshed tears of embarrassment were starting to burn her eyes.

  • It had been nearly a month of empty Thursday nights since his no-show session with Ethel Rosewater and the beautiful Betty from Boise was offering an effective way to make sure that embarrassment was a temporary happening.

  • I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.

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