embarrassingly
/əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an embarrassing manner.
adv
To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
adv
Example Sentences
- "He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor."
- "He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk."
- "He was presented with an embarrassingly long list of options."
- "This is the first Christmas, her mother reports, that Shirley Temple has been sure there isn’t a real Santa Claus. Last season she was embarrassingly curious about the numerous Messrs. Claus she saw on the streets and in department stores."
- "Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk."
Etymology
Etymology tree English embarrassing Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English embarrassingly From embarrassing + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/
- British English: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋli/
Inflected Forms
more embarrassingly (comparative)
most embarrassingly (superlative)