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Embarrassing vs Revolting - What's the difference?

embarrassing | revolting | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between embarrassing and revolting

is that embarrassing is present participle of lang=en while revolting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between embarrassing and revolting

is that embarrassing is the action of the verb to embarrass while revolting is the action of the verb to revolt.

As adjectives the difference between embarrassing and revolting

is that embarrassing is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.

embarrassing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to embarrass .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * awkward

    Derived terms

    * embarrassingly

    revolting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • The peasants are revolting !

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to revolt .
  • * 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
    • Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Which revolts or is repelling.
    • The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.