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English
Etymology
Past participle of embarrass.
Pronunciation
Adjective
embarrassed (comparative more embarrassed, superlative most embarrassed)
- Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
- Coordinate terms: ashamed, shy
- Antonyms: honored, proud
After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.
- (archaic) Impeded; obstructed; in an awkward situation.
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:[…] 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Having a feeling of shameful discomfort
- Arabic: مُحْرَج (muḥraj), بِٱلْحَرَج (bi-l-ḥaraj)
- Bulgarian: смутен (bg) (smuten), объркан (bg) (obǎrkan)
- Catalan: avergonyit (ca)
- Cebuano: ulaw
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 難為情/难为情 (zh) (nánwéiqíng), 尷尬/尴尬 (zh) (gāngà)
- Dutch: in verlegenheid gebracht
- Esperanto: embarasita
- Finnish: nolo (fi), nolostunut (fi), kiusaantunut, vaivaantunut, hämillään (fi)
- French: embarrassé (fr), gêné (fr)
- German: verlegen (de)
- Hebrew: נבוך (he)
- Hungarian: zavarban van, kínosan érzi magát, szégyelli magát (hu)
- Icelandic: blygðunarfullur
- Italian: imbarazzato (it)
- Japanese: 恥ずかしい (ja) (はずかしい, hazukashii)
- Khmer: អៀនខ្លួន (iǝn kluən)
- Korean: 부끄럽다 (ko) (bukkeureopda)
- Ladino: averguensado, entravado
- Lao: ກະດາກ (lo) (ka dāk), ຄັບໃຈ (khap chai), ມືກ່າຽຫນ້າຜາກ (mư̄ kāi nā phāk), ລະອາຍ (la ʼāi), ອາຍ (ʼāi), ຂີ້ຫລຶ້ມ (khī lưm), ອາຍໃຈ (ʼāi chai), ອາຍໜຽມ (ʼāi nīam)
- Macedonian: за́срамен (zásramen), збр́кан (zbŕkan), сму́тен (smúten)
- Malay: malu
- Maori: aniu, rōrī
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: embarrassé
- Norwegian: flau (no)
- Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub)
- Portuguese: envergonhado (pt), embaraçado (pt)
- Russian: стыдли́вый (ru) (stydlívyj), смущённый (ru) (smuščónnyj), расте́рянный (ru) (rastérjannyj)
- Spanish: avergonzado (es)
- Swedish: generad (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Venetian: intrigà, insnapà
- Vietnamese: xấu hổ (vi), bối rối (vi)
- Winnebago: hirošik
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Verb
embarrassed
- simple past and past participle of embarrass
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