Embarrassing vs Inextricable - What's the difference?
embarrassing | inextricable | Related terms |
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 (of a knot etc) impossible to untie or disentangle
(of a problem) impossible to solve
(of a maze etc) impossible to escape from
Embarrassing is a related term of inextricable.
As adjectives the difference between embarrassing and inextricable
is that embarrassing is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness while inextricable is (of a knot etc) impossible to untie or disentangle.As a verb embarrassing
is .As a noun embarrassing
is the action of the verb to embarrass .embarrassing
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(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.}}