Embarrassing

/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/

Synonyms for "embarrassing" (60 found)

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Related word relations

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affect emotionallyaffect sociallycauseevaluative adjectiveevaluative descriptor

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abashawkwarddisclosuredisconcertinappropriate behaviormortifymortifyingpublic exposureunseemly conduct

Collocations

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embarrassing disclosureembarrassing mistakeembarrassing momentembarrassing questionembarrassing silenceembarrassmentmoral embarrassmentpublic embarrassmentsocial embarrassment

Inflections

4 entries
embarrassedembarrassesmore embarrassingmost embarrassing

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My stomach started growling right there in the meeting. It was embarrassing.

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This is the most embarrassing moment of my life.

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Fancy forgetting my glasses, it's so embarrassing.

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It's an embarrassing question.

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