noun
1. the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms: ↑shame
• Hyponyms:
↑self-consciousness, ↑uneasiness, ↑uncomfortableness, ↑shamefacedness, ↑sheepishness, ↑chagrin, ↑humiliation, ↑mortification, ↑confusion, ↑discombobulation, ↑abashment, ↑bashfulness, ↑discomfiture, ↑discomposure, ↑disconcertion, ↑disconcertment
2. the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) (Freq. 1)
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he is currently suffering financial embarrassments
• Hypernyms: ↑emotional state, ↑spirit
3. some event that causes someone to be embarrassed (Freq. 1)
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the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
• Ant: ↑disembarrassment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑embarrass
• Hypernyms: ↑trouble
4. extreme excess
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an embarrassment of riches
• Syn: ↑overplus, ↑plethora, ↑superfluity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑superfluous (for: ↑superfluity), ↑plethoric (for: ↑plethora)
• Hypernyms: ↑excess, ↑excessiveness, ↑inordinateness
• Hyponyms: ↑redundancy, ↑redundance
Useful english dictionary. 2012.