embarrassing

/im'bærəsiɳ/

Thân thiện

She felt an embarrassing blush spread across her cheeks.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing feelings of shame, chagrin, or vexation: Describes something that makes a person feel self-conscious, ashamed, or awkward, often due to a social misstep or exposure of a private matter.
   • Hard to deal with; causing pain or awkwardness: Describes a situation, question, or moment that is difficult, uncomfortable, or delicate to handle.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

Advanced Usage

• "Embarrassingly" (Adverb): In a manner that causes embarrassment.
• "Embarrassing to watch": A common phrase describing a situation so awkward it causes discomfort for observers.

Variants and Related Words

• Embarrass (Verb): To cause someone to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.
• Embarrassment (Noun): The state of feeling embarrassed, or something that causes this feeling.

Synonyms

• Awkward: Causing or feeling uneasy self-consciousness.
• Mortifying: Causing great embarrassment or shame.
• Uncomfortable: Causing a feeling of discomfort or unease.
• Cringeworthy: So embarrassing it makes one cringe.

Related Phrases

• An embarrassing situation: A circumstance that causes feelings of embarrassment.
• Put someone in an embarrassing position: To cause someone to face an awkward or shameful dilemma.

Idioms

• Egg on one's face: A state of embarrassment, often due to a public mistake.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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
2. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• mortifying
• awkward
• sticky
• unenviable