embarrassments
im-BA-ruhs-muhnts/ɪmˈbæɹəsmənts/
- 1Plural of embarrassment.
The new policy created a string of embarrassments for the government.
Her early novels were later dismissed as minor embarrassments.
Note
A plural that counts occasions and causes rather than the feeling itself: a string of embarrassments is a series of incidents, people or things that bring humiliation. Every meaning of embarrassment can be counted, so the plural also covers the dated money sense, for difficulties in financial matters, and the medical one, for impairments of function due to disease.
embarrassments is a form of embarrassment
embarrassment, noun: A state of discomfort arising from shyness or from awareness that one has broken a social rule; humiliation. Full entry
- Forms
- embarrassmentembarrassments plural
- Spelling
- embarrassment → embarrassments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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