embarrassment   (Sound)

The noun embarrassment has 4 senses

• embarrassment -- (the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public)


• embarrassment -- (the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments")


• embarrassment -- (some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals")


• overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment -- (extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches")