embarrassing
/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.
Example Sentences
- "May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission."
- "The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad."
- "In a famously embarrassing incident in 1996, America Online's errant dirty-word filter prevented residents of the British town Scunthorpe from signing up as new customers."
- "“Barack Obama wrote the Epstein files? LOL. This is outright embarrassing,” Candace Owens wrote on X."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/
- British English: /ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/