English-Thai Dictionary

embarrassment

N ความขวยเขิน  ความ กระดากอาย  ความ อึดอัด ใจ  ความลำบาก ใจ  humiliation shame uncomfortableness kwam-kuai-koen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBARRASSMENT

n.Perplexity; intricacy; entanglement. 1. Confusion of mind.
2. Perplexity arising from insolvency, or from temporary inability to discharge debts.
3. Confusion; abashment.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EMBARRASSMENT

Em *bar "rass *ment, n. Etym: [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. The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft.

 

2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

embarrassment

em bar rass ment |-mənt əmˈbɛrəsmənt | ▶noun a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness: I turned red with embarrassment. • a person or thing causing such feelings: he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored | her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement. • financial difficulty: his temporary financial embarrassment. PHRASES embarrassment of riches (or choice ) more options or resources than one knows what to do with: picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard. there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies. as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice.

 

Oxford Dictionary

embarrassment

em |bar ¦rass |ment |ɪmˈbarəsmənt, ɛm- | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness: I turned red with embarrassment. • [ count noun ] a person or thing causing feelings of embarrassment: he was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored | her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement. • financial difficulty: his temporary financial embarrassment. PHRASES an embarrassment of riches (or choice ) more options or resources than one knows what to do with: picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard. there is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies. as consumers we have an embarrassment of choice.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

embarrassment

embarrassment noun 1 he was scarlet with embarrassment: mortification, humiliation, shame, shamefacedness, chagrin, awkwardness, self-consciousness, sheepishness, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, agitation, distress; shyness, bashfulness. 2 his current financial embarrassment: difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, imbroglio; informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, scrape. 3 an embarrassment of riches: surplus, excess, overabundance, superabundance, glut, surfeit, superfluity; abundance, profusion, plethora.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

embarrassment

embarrassment noun 1 Louise's heightened colour betrayed her embarrassment: awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess; shame, humiliation, mortification, ignominy; sheepishness, shyness, bashfulness; discomposure, flusteredness, perturbation, confusion, agitation, distress, chagrin. ANTONYMS confidence. 2 his current financial embarrassment: difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio; dilemma, quandary; informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, scrape. 3 an embarrassment of riches: surplus, excess, overabundance, superabundance, profusion, glut, surfeit, superfluity, more than enough, too many, too much, enough and to spare; avalanche, deluge, flood, abundance, plethora. ANTONYMS dearth.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

embarrassment

em b á r rass ment 名詞 1 U «…に対する » 恥ずかしさ, 困惑, 不愉快さ «at » (→shame 類義 ).2 C (政府 政党などの )やっかいな出来事 [行動, 状況 ].3 C 〖単数形で 〗 «…にとって » 困惑の種, 当惑させる人 «to » .4 C 〖通例 ～s 〗(金銭上の )困難 .5 C 〖単数形で 〗過剰 ▸ an embarrassment of riches 選択に困るほどよいものがたくさんあること .