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Embarrassed vs Troubled - What's the difference?

embarrassed | troubled |

As adjectives the difference between embarrassed and troubled

is that embarrassed is having a feeling of shameful discomfort while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

As verbs the difference between embarrassed and troubled

is that embarrassed is (embarrass) while troubled is (trouble).

embarrassed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
  • After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed .

    Derived terms

    * embarrassedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embarrass)
  • troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)