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Definition of Embarrassed
1. Adjective. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious. "Was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"
2. Adjective. Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride. "Felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"
Definition of Embarrassed
1. Adjective. Having a feeling of shameful discomfort. ¹
2. Verb. (past of embarrass) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embarrassed
1. embarrass [v] - See also: embarrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embarrassed
| embarkation embarkations embarked embarkee embarkees embarkest embarketh embarking embarkment embarkments | embarks embarrasing embarred embarring embars embase |
Literary usage of Embarrassed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1850)
"OF A DEED ВТ A PERSON IN Embarrassed CIRCUMSTANCES. In a case recently (1849)
determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, it has been decided that a ..."
2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... arrives there—Lord Wellington's political views—General reflections—Soult
embarrassed by the hostility of the French people—Lord Wellington embarrassed ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... embarrassed by serious questions of identification. The following notices
occur of a John ... embarrassed ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"In this fruitful and pleasant country the Romans were plentifully supplied with
water and forage : and severa) forts, which might have embarrassed the ..."
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