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Embarrassed definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBAR'RASSED, pp. Perplexed; rendered intricate; confused; confounded.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums" [syn: abashed, chagrined, embarrassed]
2: made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister" [syn: embarrassed, humiliated, mortified]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embarrass Em*bar"rass, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarrassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embarrassing.] [F. embarrasser (cf. Sp. embarazar, Pg. embara?ar, Pr. barras bar); pref. em- (L. in) + LL. barra bar. See Bar.] 1. To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator. 2. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed. 3. (Com.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements. Syn: To hinder; perplex; entangle; confuse; puzzle; disconcert; abash; distress. -- To Embarrass, Puzzle, Perplex. We are puzzled when our faculties are confused by something we do not understand. We are perplexed when our feelings, as well as judgment, are so affected that we know not how to decide or act. We are embarrassed when there is some bar or hindrance upon us which impedes our powers of thought, speech, or motion. A schoolboy is puzzled by a difficult sum; a reasoner is perplexed by the subtleties of his opponent; a youth is sometimes so embarrassed before strangers as to lose his presence of mind.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A person who is embarrassed feels shy, ashamed, or guilty about something. He looked a bit embarrassed. ...an embarrassed silence. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, annoyed, anxious, ashamed, astray, at sea, badly off, balled-up, beset, bewildered, blushful, blushing, bothered, broke, burdened with debt, cast down, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, confused, crestfallen, crushed, deep in debt, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disgraced, dismayed, disordered, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, down to bedrock, encumbered, feeling the pinch, flushed, flustered, fluttered, fussed, guessing, hangdog, harassed, hard up, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in a fix, in a jumble, in a maze, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in the hole, in the red, inconvenienced, indebted, insolvent, involved, irked, jumbled, land-poor, lost, mazed, mixed-up, mortgaged, mortified, narrow, off the track, on the edge, out of countenance, out of pocket, perplexed, perturbed, pinched, plagued, plunged in debt, poor, poorly off, put to it, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, rattled, red, red-faced, reduced, ruddy, ruffled, self-conscious, shaken, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, shook, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, shuffled, sore beset, squeezed, straitened, strapped, tied up, troubled, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, unmoneyed, unprosperous, unsettled, upset, vexed, without a clue, worried