Messy vs Embarrassing - What's the difference?
messy | embarrassing | Synonyms |
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
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
Messy is a synonym of embarrassing.
As nouns the difference between messy and embarrassing
is that messy is while embarrassing is the action of the verb to embarrass .As a verb embarrassing is
.As an adjective embarrassing is
causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.messy
English
Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}
Synonyms
(in a disorderly state) untidy, chaotic, disorderly, clutteredAntonyms
* neat * orderlyDerived terms
* messily * messinessDescendants
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* *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.}}