Embarrassment vs Snub - What's the difference?
embarrassment | snub | Related terms |
A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
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(medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .
Conspicuously short.
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*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
(obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
* Spenser
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To turn down; to dismiss.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
To sob with convulsions.
Embarrassment is a related term of snub.
As nouns the difference between embarrassment and snub
is that embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation while snub is a deliberate affront or slight.As an adjective snub is
conspicuously short.As a verb snub is
to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.embarrassment
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
- ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
Derived terms
* embarrassment of richesExternal links
* *snub
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnubNoun
(en noun)- I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
Derived terms
* snubbing post * snub lineVerb
(snubb)- For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
- He snubbed my offer to help.
Synonyms
* (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone deadEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).Verb
(snubb)- (Bailey)