Bashful vs Embarrasses - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between bashful and embarrasses

is that bashful is inclined to avoid notice while embarrasses is .

* bashfull (archaic)

(en adjective)

(rfc-sense) inclined to avoid notice

reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

* shy * See also

(head)

(embarrass)

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(es)

to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash

The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.

To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.

Business is embarrassed'''; public affairs are '''embarrassed .

To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.

A man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

* (humiliate) abash, discomfit, disconcert, humiliate, shame * See also

* embarrassment

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