Definitions

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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And I recently shared my own embarrassing secret — that I didn’t have a budget, and my spending was getting out of control.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

It would also be embarrassing if the governor tried to muscle candidates aside and failed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The team’s response to me, one of the most embarrassing moments of my career, reflected Mueller’s approach to the entire effort: “All we want is the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

I don’t smile along with him—the memory is too embarrassing.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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