unembarrassing
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- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪmˈbɛrəsɪŋ/
- The comedian's jokes were light-hearted and unembarrassing, making everyone feel comfortable.
Examples
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After a while, Hilary found convenient and unembarrassing ways to slip Will some money every week.
Fiction book (1996) -
Eating in front of Seth turned out to be an unembarrassing experience.
Fiction book (1995) -
Polly thought it highly valuable to have a lover with such pleasing, lauded, and unembarrassing passions.
Fiction book (1995) -
But when I published my first volume of poetry, the somewhat bland though unembarrassing Willow Tree Tresses, I thought for certain all of her resentment would disintegrate.
Fiction book (2002) -
Eating in front of Seth turned out to be an unembarrassing experience.
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She handled the awkward situation with grace, making it feel unembarrassing for everyone involved.
Synonyms
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Not likely to upset or offend people
Antonyms
How Embarrassing
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unembarrassing = embarrassing (transparent) = un + embarrass + ing
The productive negative prefix 'un-' is directly applied to the adjective 'embarrassing', yielding the straightforward negation 'not embarrassing'.
Etymology
The word unembarrassing is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and embarrass meaning 'to make you feel shy or ashamed'. So imagine someone removing an awkward moment and making you feel relaxed, and that's why unembarrassing means 'not causing shame'.