embarrassing

ADJECTIVE

humiliating, shaming

Synonyms

STRONGEST

awkward confusing difficult disconcerting distressing disturbing exasperating inconvenient perplexing puzzling shameful ticklish tricky troublesome troubling uncomfortable unseemly upsetting worrisome

STRONG

bewildering compromising discomfiting discommoding distracting mortifying rattling

WEAK

delicate disagreeable discommodious equivocal impossible incommodious inopportune sensitive sticky touchy uneasy unpropitious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

convenient easy helpful straightforward uncomplicated

WEAK

comfortable unshameful

Example Sentences

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We dislike insecure bellicosity not just because it’s embarrassing, but because it is ineffective.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

“She was being very loud about it. It was so embarrassing and disruptive, and she kept calling the flight attendants over.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

But it isn’t just Miller who is embarrassing the president with his Titanic moves.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s quite embarrassing, in a way, to still being doing this at my age.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The entire thing was embarrassing and infuriating, but the worst part was Poppy, who was standing with her super-special and shiny coven, smiling and laughing.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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