| 单词 | embarrassing |
| 释义 | embarrassing (once / 926 pages) adj Use the adjective embarrassing to describe something that is shameful or humiliating. You probably have a few embarrassing stories that you'd rather not remember, but your siblings are always happy to bring them up at holidays. It's really embarrassing how many people misspell embarrassing. The word has two r's and two s's but you might forget and leave one of them out. Imagine how embarrassing it would be if you were winning the third grade spelling bee and got the word embarrassing wrong. You know everyone would be talking about it. How embarrassing! WORD FAMILYembarrassing: embarrassingly+/disembarrass: disembarrassed, disembarrasses, disembarrassing, disembarrassment/embarrass: disembarrass, embarrassed, embarrasses, embarrassing, embarrassment/embarrassed: embarrassedly, unembarrassed/embarrassment: embarrassments/unembarrassed: unembarrassedly USAGE EXAMPLESIt started with an embarrassing blowout loss against an NFC West opponent. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Online sign-ups for his health care law were crippled by massive technical issues, resulting in one of the most embarrassing episodes of his presidency. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Metro’s BusETA system does not do this, but the result would be pretty embarrassing. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles Syn mortifying unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings 2adj hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment Syn awkward, sticky, unenviable difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure |
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