trouble vs embarrassment
embarrassment vs troubletrouble and embarrassment both are nouns.
trouble is a verb but embarrassment is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trouble | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| embarrassment | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
embarrassment is a hyponym of
trouble; that is, embarrassment is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
trouble:
- trouble: an event causing distress or pain
- embarrassment: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
Other hyponyms of trouble include
bad luck, misfortune, affliction, convulsion, blaze, hell, onslaught, outrage, scandal, disturbance, interference, noise.
| trouble (noun) | embarrassment (noun) |
|---|---|
| an effort that is inconvenient | extreme excess |
| a source of difficulty | some event that causes someone to be embarrassed |
| an event causing distress or pain | the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public |
| an angry disturbance | the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) |
| a strong feeling of anxiety | |
| an unwanted pregnancy |
| trouble (verb) | embarrassment (verb) |
|---|---|
| cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | |
| disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | |
| move deeply | |
| to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | |
| take the trouble to do something; concern oneself |
Words related to "trouble"
- affect
- affliction
- agitate
- ail
- anxiety
- bad luck
- bear on
- bear upon
- blaze
- bother
- break out
- can of worms
- cark
- charge
- charge up
- commove
- convulsion
- deep water
- difficultness
- difficulty
- discommode
- disoblige
- disorder
- disquiet
- distract
- distress
- disturb
- disturbance
- effort
- elbow grease
- embarrassment
- erupt
- excite
- exertion
- fuss
- gestation
- growing pains
- happening
- hassle
- hell
- hurt
- hydra
- impact
- impress
- incommode
- inconvenience
- inconvenience oneself
- interference
- jolt
- maternity
- matter
- misfortune
- move
- natural event
- noise
- occurrence
- occurrent
- onslaught
- outrage
- pain
- perturb
- perturbation
- pregnancy
- pressure point
- problem
- put out
- reach
- recrudesce
- rouse
- scandal
- strain
- straiten
- strike
- strive
- sweat
- the devil
- touch
- touch on
- travail
- trouble
- trouble oneself
- troublous
- tsuris
- turn on
- unhinge
- upset
- vex
- worry
Words related to "embarrassment"
- abashment
- bashfulness
- chagrin
- confusion
- discombobulation
- discomfiture
- discomposure
- disconcertion
- disconcertment
- disembarrassment
- embarrass
- emotional state
- excess
- excessiveness
- humiliation
- inordinateness
- mortification
- overplus
- plethora
- redundance
- redundancy
- self-consciousness
- shame
- shamefacedness
- sheepishness
- spirit
- superfluity
- trouble
- uncomfortableness
- uneasiness
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