embarrassment

Other forms of embarrassment

plural

embarrassments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about embarrassment

What does embarrassment mean?

embarrassment means "the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in embarrassment?

embarrassment has 4 syllables: em-bar-ras-sment. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ɪmˈbɛɹəsmənt/.

What is another word for embarrassment?

Close synonyms include overplus, plethora, superfluity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of embarrassment?

The recorded antonyms are disembarrassment.

Is embarrassment a common word?

embarrassment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.