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embarrassment 音標拼音: [ɪmb'ɛrəsmənt] n. 窘迫,使人為難的事物 窘迫,使人為難的事物 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 \ Em* bar" rass* ment\, 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": abasement, 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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