My stomach started growling right there in the meeting. It was embarrassing.
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Embarrassing
//ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ//
Synonyms for "embarrassing" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (23)
Related word relations
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3 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 27 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- бянтэ́жачы adj (causing embarrassment)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 令人困窘的 adj (causing embarrassment)
- 好糗的 adj (causing embarrassment)
- 尷尬 /尴尬 adj (causing embarrassment)
Czech
1 entries- trapný adj (causing embarrassment)
Danish
2 entries- flov adj (causing embarrassment)
- pinlig adj (causing embarrassment)
Dutch
1 entries- gênant adj (causing embarrassment)
Estonian
1 entries- piinlik adj (causing embarrassment)
Finnish
3 entries- kiusallinen adj (causing embarrassment)
- nolo adj (causing embarrassment)
- nolostuttava adj (causing embarrassment)
French
2 entries- embarrassant adj (causing embarrassment)
- gênant adj (causing embarrassment)
German
4 entries- bemühend adj (causing embarrassment)
- beschämend adj (causing embarrassment)
- blamabel adj (causing embarrassment)
- peinlich adj (causing embarrassment)
Greek
1 entries- ντροπιαστικός adj (causing embarrassment)
Hindi
1 entries- लज्जाजनक adj (causing embarrassment)
Hungarian
4 entries- ciki adj (causing embarrassment)
- gáz adj (causing embarrassment)
- gázos adj (causing embarrassment)
- kínos adj (causing embarrassment)
Icelandic
1 entries- vandræðalegur adj (causing embarrassment)
Indonesian
1 entries- memalukan adj (causing embarrassment)
Italian
1 entries- imbarazzante adj (causing embarrassment)
Japanese
1 entries- 恥ずかしい adj (causing embarrassment)
Latin
2 entries- difficilis adj (causing embarrassment)
- humiliāns adj (causing embarrassment)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- flaut adj (causing embarrassment)
- pinlig adj (causing embarrassment)
Polish
2 entries- krępujący adj (causing embarrassment)
- żenujący adj (causing embarrassment)
Portuguese
2 entries- constrangedor adj (causing embarrassment)
- embaraçoso adj (causing embarrassment)
Romanian
1 entries- jenant adj (causing embarrassment)
Russian
2 entries- затрудни́тельный adj (causing embarrassment)
- смуща́ющий adj (causing embarrassment)
Sanskrit
1 entries- लज्जास्पद adj (causing embarrassment)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- postiđujući adj (causing embarrassment)
Spanish
4 entries- abochornante adj (causing embarrassment)
- bochornoso adj (causing embarrassment)
- embarazoso adj (causing embarrassment)
- sonrojante adj (causing embarrassment)
Swedish
2 entries- genant adj (causing embarrassment)
- pinsam adj (causing embarrassment)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бенте́жний adj (causing embarrassment)
- утру́днений adj (causing embarrassment)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
This is the most embarrassing moment of my life.
Source: tatoeba (27589)
Fancy forgetting my glasses, it's so embarrassing.
Source: tatoeba (31837)
It's an embarrassing question.
Source: tatoeba (42435)
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