embarrassing
Meaning of embarrassing
adjective
- causing embarrassment.
an embarrassing muddle
- cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.
she wouldn't embarrass either of them by making a scene
- hamper or impede (a person or action).
the state of the rivers will embarrass the enemy
early 17th century (in embarrass (sense 2 of the verb)): from French embarrasser, from Spanish embarazar, probably from Portuguese embaraçar (from baraço ‘halter’).
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Hyphenation of embarrassing
em-bar-rass-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- embarrassing is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
embarrassing synonyms
Meaning awkward:
Meaning mortifying:
Meaning make (someone) feel ashamed:
Meaning worthy of or causing shame or disgrace:
Meaning making someone feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and pride:
Meaning causing someone to lose their dignity and the respect of others:
Meaning causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating:
Meaning deserving or causing public disgrace or shame:
Meaning causing unhappiness, disappointment, or worry:
Meaning causing one to feel unsettled:
Meaning make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed:
Meaning disturb or agitate (someone):
Meaning bewildering or perplexing:
Meaning make (someone) agitated or confused:
Meaning make (someone) troubled or nervous:
Meaning refuse to approve of:
Meaning causing anxiety, sorrow or pain; upsetting:
Meaning tending to bring harm to a reputation:
Meaning shockingly unacceptable:
Meaning causing or feeling unease or awkwardness:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning (of a task, problem, etc.) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward:
Meaning requiring sensitive or careful handling:
Meaning quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences:
Meaning constituting or presenting a problem:
Meaning causing difficulty or annoyance:
Meaning having many thorns or thorn bushes:
Meaning full of knots:
Meaning causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry:
Meaning (of a person) sensitive to being tickled:
Meaning (of information or a situation) revealing an embarrassing or incriminating secret about someone:
Meaning unpredictable and potentially dangerous:
Meaning covered with hair:
Meaning causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness:
Meaning dishonest or unreliable:
Meaning make (someone) feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and pride:
Meaning cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something):
Meaning make (someone) feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed or ashamed:
Meaning fill with horror; shock greatly:
Meaning greatly dismay or horrify:
Meaning compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape:
Meaning make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried:
Meaning disturb the composure of; unsettle:
Meaning make (someone) bewildered or perplexed:
Meaning surprise and confuse (someone) so much that they are unsure how to react:
Meaning disturb the composure of:
Meaning cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning feel distressed or humiliated:
Meaning harm the good reputation of:
Meaning bring shame or disgrace on:
Meaning disturb or disconcert (someone):
Meaning make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking sounds:
Meaning disconcert or confuse (someone):
Meaning have (something) as one's own; possess:
Words that rhyme with embarrassing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing
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