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Synonyms for embarrassed
Synonyms for embarrassed: humiliated and chagrined. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for embarrassed
- humiliatedadjective, in the sense "made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride"
- chagrinedadjective, in the sense "feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed"
Two senses of embarrassed, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
Too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street.
The true synonym
humiliated
Same sentence, swapped: Too humiliated to say hello to his drunken father on the street.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where embarrassed stands in the sentence above.
- uncomfortable
- anxious
- confused
feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed
Was embarrassed by her child's tantrums.
The true synonym
chagrined
Same sentence, swapped: Was chagrined by her child's tantrums.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- anxious
- abroad
- narrow
Where embarrassed turns up in the game
embarrassed is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where embarrassed is the trap
- smittenadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is infatuated, in the sense "deeply infatuated or in love", so embarrassed is there to be ruled out.
- worriedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is apprehensive, in the sense "mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc", so embarrassed is there to be ruled out.
Play embarrassed
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so embarrassed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other words at Treeline, then their alphabetical neighbours.
The same bank, read from both sides
embarrassed is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.