embarrassed
adjUK, US /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ · /ɪmˈbɛɹ.əst/
Etymology Past participle of embarrass.
1
Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
- After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.
- SIMONE: And I said, "Well, Michaela is here at the guest house and she doesn't have her things and she had to run home from West Tisbury and someone thought she was homeless and she's hurt and embarrassed and I think it would be very gentlemanly of one of you to come over here and talk to her," and he said, "It's you I want to talk to, and I'll be over after we finish up."2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 47:
2
Archaic Impeded; obstructed; in an awkward situation.
- […] they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English a promise of safety.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- Synonyms
- abashed, ashamed, discombobulated, embarrassed, mortified, red in the face, shamed, shamefaced, scundered
- Derived terms
- embarrassedly, I'm embarrassed, temporarily embarrassed millionaire, unembarrassed
- Hypernyms
- disgraced, humiliated