embarrassed as an adjective: - 1
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embarrassed
adjective
1 embarrassed
Feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed:
— Was embarrassed by her child's tantrums.
synonyms: abashed, chagrined.
Roget 804:
poor,
indigent;
poverty-stricken;
badly off,
poorly off,
ill off;
poor as a rat,
poor as a church mouse,
poor as a Job;
fortuneless†,
dowerless†,
moneyless†,
penniless;
unportioned†,
unmoneyed†;
impecunious;
out of money,
out of cash,
short of money,
short of cash;
without a rap,
not worth a rap
etc.
(money)
800;
qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.],
out of pocket,
hard up;
out at elbows,
out at heels;
seedy,
bare-footed;
beggarly,
beggared;
destitute;
fleeced,
stripped;
bereft,
bereaved;
reduced;
homeless.
in want
etc.
n.;
needy,
necessitous,
distressed,
pinched,
straitened;
put to one's shifts,
put to one's last shifts;
unable to keep the wolf from the door,
unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed,
under hatches;
involved
etc.
(in debt)
806;
insolvent
etc.
(not paying)
808.
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2 embarrassed
Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride:
— Too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street.
synonyms: humiliated, mortified.
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 ... show more.
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