1 making you feel shy, awkward or ashamed:
an embarrassing mistake / question / situation * It can be embarrassing for children to tell complete strangers about such incidents. * It was so embarrassing having to sing in public.
2 causing sb to look stupid, dishonest, etc:
The report is likely to prove highly embarrassing to the government. * This EU ruling puts Britain in a very embarrassing position.
embarrassingly adverb:
The play was embarrassingly bad.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of embarrassing come from?
This entry for embarrassing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is embarrassing a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, embarrassing is tagged as adjective.
Does embarrassing appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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