Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

embarrassing

embarrassing , adjective

1.

hard to deal with; as, greeted with an embarrassing silence.

2.

causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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