embarrassment
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
Types & categories
- shame hypernym
- self-consciousness hyponym
- shamefacedness hyponym
- mortification hyponym
- discombobulation hyponym
- abashment hyponym
- discomposure hyponym
Sense 2 noun
the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
he is currently suffering financial embarrassments
Types & categories
- emotional state hypernym
Sense 3 noun
some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
Types & categories
- trouble hypernym
Related & opposite
- disembarrassment antonym
- embarrass derivation
Sense 4 noun
extreme excess
an embarrassment of riches
Types & categories
- excessiveness hypernym
- redundance hyponym
Related & opposite
- overabundant derivation
- excess derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | shame |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | self-consciousness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shamefacedness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mortification |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | discombobulation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | abashment |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | discomposure |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | emotional state |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | disembarrassment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | embarrass |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | trouble |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | overabundant |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | excess |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | excessiveness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | redundance |