What is "embarrassing" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does embarrassing mean in English? Meaning of embarrassing definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "embarrassing" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "embarrassing": hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

Adjective

  • Meaning: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
  • Example: awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion an awkward pause followed his remark a sticky question in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
  • Synonyms: awkward embarrassing sticky unenviable
  • Similar: difficult hard
  • Meaning of "embarrassing": causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation

    Adjective

  • Meaning: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
  • Example: the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles it was mortifying to know he had heard every word
  • Synonyms: embarrassing mortifying
  • Similar: unpleasant
  • Adjective: Present participle of embarrass.
  • Synonyms:

    distressing, tricky, troublesome, perplexing, puzzling, awkward, upsetting, unseemly, ticklish, shameful, uncomfortable, disturbing, inconvenient, confusing, worrisome, difficult, delicate, disagreeable, equivocal, impossible, inopportune, sensitive, sticky, touchy, uneasy, unpropitious, incommodious, exasperating, disconcerting, troubling, mortifying, compromising, discommoding, distracting, rattling, bewildering, discomfiting, discommodious,

    Antonyms:

    uncomplicated, helpful, easy, convenient, straightforward, comfortable, unshameful,

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    embarrassing in English: embarrassing
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