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embarrased

embarrased is the misspelling of embarrassed.

Meaning of embarrassed

Adjective

embarrassed (comparative more embarrassed, superlative most embarrassed)

  1. Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
    • After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed.
    Antonyms:
    honored, proud
  2. (archaic) Impeded; obstructed; in an awkward situation.
    • […] they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English a promise of safety.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew

Questions about embarrased

What is embarrased the misspelling of?
Embarrased is the misspelling of embarrassed.

Words near embarrased in the dictionary

  1. embarn
  2. embarned
  3. embarning
  4. embarns
  5. embarras
  6. embarrased
  7. embarrasing
  8. embarrass
  9. embarrassability
  10. embarrassable
  11. embarrassed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embarrased (page history and authors); embarrassed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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