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Inopportune vs Embarrassing - What's the difference?

inopportune | embarrassing | Related terms |

Inopportune is a related term of embarrassing.


As adjectives the difference between inopportune and embarrassing

is that inopportune is unsuitable for some particular purpose while embarrassing is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.

As a verb embarrassing is

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As a noun embarrassing is

the action of the verb to embarrass .

inopportune

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • unsuitable for some particular purpose
    • That was a most inopportune spot for a picnic.
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
    • "It appears I come at an inopportune time, madam," said he, "when my friend, Mr. Rochester, is from home; but I arrive from a very long journey, and I think I may presume so far on old and intimate acquaintance as to install myself here till he returns."
  • at an inconvenient or inappropriate time
    • The inopportune arrival of the bus cut short the interesting conversation.

    Antonyms

    * opportune

    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