embarrassing

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Variant of embarrass

embarrass definition

em·bar·rass (em bar′əs, im-)

transitive verb

  1. to cause to feel self-conscious, confused, and ill at ease; disconcert; fluster
  2. to cause difficulties to; hinder; impede
  3. to cause to be in debt; cause financial difficulties to
  4. to make more difficult; complicate

Etymology: Fr embarrasser, lit., to encumber, obstruct < Sp embarazar < It imbarrazzare < imbarrare, to bar, impede < in- (L in-) + ML barra, bar

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embarrassing Synonyms

embarrassing

modif.

awkward, uncomfortable, disconcerting, difficult, disturbing, confusing, distracting, bewildering, puzzling, rattling, perplexing, delicate, touchy, distressing, upsetting, discomforting, discomfiting, ticklish, flustering, mortifying, humiliating, shameful, shaming, troubling, troublesome, worrisome, disagreeable, inconvenient, inopportune, helpless, unseemly, impossible, uneasy, equivocal, irksome, ambiguous, unpropitious, unmanageable, sticky*.

Antonyms comfortable*, easy*, agreeable.


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