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Synonyms for embarrassing
em·bar·rass·ing

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Wiktionary3.5 / 2 votes

  1. embarrassingadjective

    Synonyms:
    awkward

  2. embarrassingadjective

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

    Synonyms:
    awkward

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviableadjective

    hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

    "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

    Synonyms:
    mortifying, unenviable, ungainly, ill-chosen, clumsy, inapt, glutinous, mucilaginous, viscous, awkward, bunglesome, muggy, cumbersome, viscid, inept, gummy, ill at ease(p), gluey, pasty, uneasy, steamy, sticky

    Antonyms:
    easy, pleasant

  2. embarrassing, mortifyingadjective

    causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation

    "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"

    Synonyms:
    humbling, mortifying, demeaning, sticky, awkward, humiliating, unenviable

    Antonyms:
    easy, pleasant

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    Submitted by anonymous on December 28, 2020  

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  1. embarrassingadjective

    Synonyms:
    disconcerting, distressing, perplexing, confusing

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#9246sticky
#9372painful
#9416annoying
#13845uncomfortable
#17452awkward
#17894ashamed
#18616unpleasant
#19258embarrassing
#20401embarrassed
#23170embarrassment
#26847troublesome
#27419cumbersome
#27699uneasy
#28776clumsy
#29867shameful
#32209distracting
#32670viscous
#32934inconvenient
#34738humiliating
#35414steamy
#41493inept
#45257disgraceful
#46948bothersome
#55158gummy
#58424humbling
#61729pasty
#62854demeaning
#111317muggy
#116018unenviable
#121797ungainly
#135252glutinous
#178788mortifying
#264062viscid
#287299mucilaginous
#291589inapt
#320960gluey

How to use embarrassing in a sentence?

  1. Ruben Nieves:

    If you listen and look, it's questionable whether people are enjoying this, people are angry. The kids are crying... because adults are yelling at them. Because mom is embarrassing me and making a scene on the sidelines, and the coach never lets me handle the ball.

  2. Bill Clinton:

    I don’t like all this. I couldn’t be elected anything now ?be?cause I just don’t like embarrassing people?, my mother would have whipped me for five days in a row when I was a little boy if I spent all my time badmouthing people like this.

  3. Adnan Choopani:

    In one way, it's good for the world to see how Australia has been treating our entrants, whether they're asylum seekers or refugees, or indeed an athlete like Dijana Djokovic who has simply fallen afoul, apparently, on the documentation on Dijana Djokovic visa, if anything, we're hoping that this entire embarrassing saga comes to place Australians in a position where they understand more the plight of these people.

  4. Keegan Bradley:

    This is really embarrassing, but I have a set of wide receiver Patriots gloves I put on now and then, i had them on the last time they were losing against the Ravens. I took them off and I left them at home. I didn't bring them. I get a lot of weird stuff I do.

  5. Bob Barnes:

    It was emotional, i felt guilty. It was 100% my fault … It’s embarrassing, but it happened.


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