Another word for embarrassing | Synonyms for embarrassing

Another word for embarrassing

embarrassing Synonyms

embarrassing

modif.

awkward, uncomfortable, disconcerting, difficult, disturbing, confusing, distracting, bewildering, puzzling, rattling, perplexing, delicate, touchy, distressing, upsetting, discomforting, discomfiting, ticklish, flustering, mortifying, humiliating, shameful, shaming, troubling, troublesome, worrisome, disagreeable, inconvenient, inopportune, helpless, unseemly, impossible, uneasy, equivocal, irksome, ambiguous, unpropitious, unmanageable, sticky*.

Antonyms comfortable*, easy, agreeable.

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This is embarrassing, but I really need the money for groceries.
I suppose it's getting a little embarrassing now.
It was embarrassing to think she had let it go on this long without realizing he was troubled by it.
When the count returned, Natasha was impolitely pleased and hastened to get away: at that moment she hated the stiff, elderly princess, who could place her in such an embarrassing position and had spent half an hour with her without once mentioning Prince Andrew.
While Dean held out no illusions of leading the pack through the mountains, after turning out 73 miles of rolling hills on a humid Saturday, he felt more confident of his chance of least not embarrassing himself.

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