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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, difficulty |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, bind, bottleneck, choke point, contingency, crossroad, dilemma, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, extremity, hardship, hole*, mess*, mystification, pass, perplexity, pinch*, plight, predicament, rigor, squeeze*, turning point*, vicissitude, zero hour |
| Antonyms: | advantage, solution, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | involvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | crisis, embarrassment, entanglement, quandary |
| Main Entry: | uneasiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset |
| Synonyms: | agitation, alarm, angst, anxiety, apprehension, compunction, constraint, disbelief, discomfort, discontent, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, doubt, dread, dyspathy, dysphoria, embarrassment, fear, inquietude, instability, malaise, misgiving, nervousness, penitence, perturbation, qualm, queasiness, remorse, restlessness, scruple, trouble, uncertainty, unrest, worry |
| Antonyms: | calmness |
| Main Entry: | uneasiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-consciousness |
| Synonyms: | awkwardness, embarrassment, uncomfortableness |
| Main Entry: | egg on one's face |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation |
| Synonyms: | abashment, chagrin, embarrassment, look foolish, mortification, red face, self-consciousness, shame |
| Main Entry: | bad name |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace |
| Synonyms: | bad odor, blemish, blot, discredit, dishonor, disrepute, embarrassment, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, opprobrium, reproach, shame, smirch |
| Main Entry: | discomposure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitation |
| Synonyms: | abashment, confusion, discombobulation, discomfiture, disorder, distraction, embarrassment, perturbation, uneasiness |
| Main Entry: | licking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow*, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count*, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, overthrow, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | superfluousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | balance, by-product, embarrassment, enough, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overabundance, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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