Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of embarrass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. feeling uneasily or unpleasantly self-conscious due to some event or circumstance.
- adj. feeling inferior or unworthy and hence unpleasantly self-conscious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
- adj. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
Etymologies
- From embarrass + -ed. The adjective is an extension of the past participle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Because the word embarrassed was her middle name, Charlotte wouldnt wish public humiliation on her worst enemy.”
“He never said it aloud, but I knew the name embarrassed him.”
“I laughed out loud at the dark humor, though I could not tell you why exactly, leaving the speaker of the term embarrassed when she realized I had heard her.”
“Many years ago Ronald Reagan's pollster talked after Watergate about what he called the embarrassed Republican vote: many Republicans who chose to stay home rather than vote for their party.”
“The way for the Nationals to stop getting embarrassed is to start winning, Mark Zuckerman says.”
“While the Mount Holyoke grads were meeting in embarrassed little encounter groups to discuss possibly putting a mirror down there, Brown was telling her readers to embrace all aspects of their body, including the various functions and products of the alimentary tract.”
“At Turin 's Sonia Rossi Gallery stand, Annika Str ö m, who has also produced a performance piece for the fair in which 10 men are wandering around pretending to be embarrassed, is showing two identical watercolor posters which read: buy one get one free.”
“I was so stinkin 'embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me," she said of the fall.”
“` ` I was embarrassed from the standpoint of our organization and everything we stand for.”
“At least six of them used the word embarrassed, probably more.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘embarrassed’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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falsos amigos - false friends
"false friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look and/or sound similar, but differ in meaning." (wikipedia)
palabras...apposite, equivocate, cupidity, supercilious, voluble, cabal, petulant, truculence, embarrassed, casualty, exit, sunrise and 5 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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Words I can't spell
These words I have mispronounced/misspelled badly enough to make me terribly embarrassed or annoyed. Therefore, this list is my sorrow and my shame.
antiquated, reprehensible, stationary, stationery, surreptitious, modicum, efficacious, exacerbate, plaintive, etymology, embarrassed, ramifications and 4 more...
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Weekly list(17-22/08/2010)
exhausting, to encounter, encounter, insistance, aware of, aware, insist, ensure, desire, procure, pinnacle, courteous and 14 more...
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English Two – Summer 2009: Weekly Words
Words that were posted on our English Two blog.
The semester and the course are over now, so this list can be considered finalized.salient, ersatz, purloin, trollop, blitz, dwelling, ample, to get the ax, draconian, madeupical, eerie, gunslinger and 58 more...
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OM1 Lesson 6
missing, concert, purse, find, key, everywhere, could, embarrassed, envelope, thought, realize, everything and 11 more...
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false friends/soundalikes
in various languages
papa, casualty, way, knuckle, taco, embarrassed, molest, sensible
Tweets
Looking for tweets for embarrassed.

bilby cute oro :-) Apr 26, 2008
oroboros embarRassED Apr 26, 2008
john A false friend. For more, see this list. Jan 12, 2008
nheiges "Embarazada" in Spanish means pregnant Jul 4, 2007