Embarrassing vs Unembarrassing - What's the difference?
embarrassing | unembarrassing |
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 Not embarrassing.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 8, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=After 20 Years, Kyle Chandler Gets Off the Bench, work=New York Times
, passage=At 42, Mr. Chandler has had a career distinguished by few roles that are as well conceived (or as fundamentally unembarrassing ) as this one. }}
As adjectives the difference between embarrassing and unembarrassing
is that embarrassing is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness while unembarrassing is not embarrassing.As a verb embarrassing
is .As a noun embarrassing
is the action of the verb to embarrass .embarrassing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)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
* awkwardDerived terms
* embarrassinglyunembarrassing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation