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Hesitating vs Embarrassing - What's the difference?

hesitating | embarrassing |

As verbs the difference between hesitating and embarrassing

is that hesitating is while embarrassing is .

As nouns the difference between hesitating and embarrassing

is that hesitating is hesitation while embarrassing is the action of the verb to embarrass .

As an adjective embarrassing is

causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.

hesitating

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • hesitation
  • * (Charles Dickens)
    • Miss Martin, after sundry hesitatings and coughings, with a preparatory choke or two,

    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