Embarrassing

English

Verb

embarrassing

1. Present participle of embarrass.

Noun

Embarrassing (plural Embarrassings)

1. The action of the verb to embarrass.

Adjective

Embarrassing (comparative more Embarrassing, superlative most Embarrassing)

1. causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness

Synonyms

• awkward

Derived terms

• embarrassingly

Thesaurus

awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, chastening, confounding, confusing, crushing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, distressing, disturbing, enigmatic, humbling, humiliating, humiliative, intricate, mortifying, mysterious, mystifying, perplexing, perturbing, problematic, puzzling, shameful, shaming, touchy, uncomfortable, upsetting, worrying

Translations

causing embarrassment

Chinese: 好糗 (hǎoqiǔ) Czech: trapný (cs) m. Danish: pinlig (da) Dutch: gênant (nl) Estonian: piinlik (et) French: embarrassant (fr) m., embarrassante (fr) f., gênant (fr) m., gênante (fr) f. German: peinlich (de)

Hungarian: kínos (hu) (normal), ciki (hu) (informal), gázos (hu), gáz (hu), égő (hu) (slang) Italian: imbarazzante (it) m. and f. Spanish: embarazoso (es) m. Swedish: pinsam (sv), genant (sv)