embarrassingly
13
3.5
- adverb
- /ɪmˈbærəsɪŋli/
:
vergonzosamente
- The equations that described black holes turned out to be embarrassingly simple, too simple.
- embarrassingly simple
And I just started like embarrassingly, just like wail in front of her.
- And I just started like embarrassingly, just like wail in front of her.
- Like I'm pretty, you know, embarrassingly non athletic.
- And then Brazilian said like this is like embarrassingly shallow.
- And and I was just, I was fried and I got really, really big embarrassing, embarrassingly, you know, obese.
- I genuinely embarrassingly arrive back today from Los Angeles with a load of like, sort of shampoos, imposter bags.
Examples
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Everything is going my way, and I am embarrassingly happy.
Fiction book (1996) -
In consequence, the land value in the district was embarrassingly depressed.
Academic text (1992) -
And it's a, it's actually an embarrassingly simple idea.
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So we have beaten a good team and lost embarrassingly to another good team.
Blog text (16) -
Lately, though, my father's letters had been brief and embarrassingly simple, as if I were still eight years old.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's embarrassingly simple, the simplest version of it.
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It appears my evening has drawn to an embarrassingly dramatic close.
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I have this embarrassingly large stack of Bandai Star Wars models.
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As a former curator myself, I know that an embarrassingly high percentage of objects in our museums are forgeries.
Academic text (2009) -
He embarrassingly failed to remember her name at the party.
Synonyms
38
2.7
In a clumsy or uncomfortable way, often showing nervousness around other people
10
3.4
In a way that makes people feel guilty or embarrassed
3
4.6
In a way that makes people feel ashamed
1
9.9
In a way that causes public shame or loss of respect
1
6.7
In a way that makes someone feel very ashamed and small
1
6.5
In a way that is not careful about other people's feelings and can embarrass them
1
8.0
Causing strong embarrassment or shame
1
7.9
In a shy, embarrassed way
1
8.0
In a way that makes people feel ashamed
In a way that shows strong embarrassment or discomfort
In a way that makes people feel embarrassed or uncomfortable
In an awkward or wrong way that causes trouble
In a way that shows bad manners
Antonyms
How Embarrassing
Surface Forms
Morphology
embarrassingly = embarrassing (transparent) = embarrass + ing + ly
The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'embarrassing' with '-ly', so the meaning is straightforwardly recoverable.
Etymology
Embarrassingly comes from embarrass, which originally joined em- 'in' and bar 'bar' or 'block' in French to mean being 'put behind a bar' or blocked. So the idea is of feeling stuck and exposed, which is why something done embarrassingly makes you feel ashamed and unable to act freely in front of others.