EMBARRASSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embarrassed mean? 

• EMBARRASSED (adjective)
  The adjective EMBARRASSED has 2 senses:

1. feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed

2. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

  Familiarity information: EMBARRASSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBARRASSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed

Synonyms:

abashed; chagrined; embarrassed

Context example:

was embarrassed by her child's tantrums

Similar:

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

Synonyms:

embarrassed; humiliated; mortified

Context example:

felt mortified by the comparison with her sister

Similar:

ashamed (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual is or has been embarrassed by their eating habits.

(Embarassed by My Eating Habits, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual is or was embarrassed about their illness.

(Embarrassed by Illness, NCI Thesaurus)

She was soon convinced that it was not for herself she was feeling at all apprehensive or embarrassed; it was for him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Perhaps,” said Miss Tilney in an embarrassed manner, “you would be so good—it would make me very happy if—”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And upon Elizabeth's seeming really, with vexed and embarrassed looks, about to escape, she added: “Lizzy, I insist upon your staying and hearing Mr. Collins.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

All the time he kept smiling and putting his tongue out in the most guilty, embarrassed manner, so that a child could have told that he was bent on some deception.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Such language was so new to Fanny that it quite embarrassed her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Being a little embarrassed at first, and feeling much too young to preside, I made Steerforth take the head of the table when dinner was announced, and seated myself opposite to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She could not have called it either cold or friendly, or anything so certainly as embarrassed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)