embarrassment

Nouns

  • (n) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
  • (n) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
    • he is currently suffering financial embarrassments
  • (n) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
    • the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
  • (n) extreme excess
    • an embarrassment of riches
    overplus, plethora, superfluity,

Synonyms

overplus plethora superfluity

Antonyms

disembarrassment

Words of close approximity