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Synonyms for embarrassing
Synonyms for embarrassing: mortifying and awkward. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for embarrassing
Interchangeable with embarrassing in this sense
Audited under embarrassing's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one embarrassing carries in that sense.
- mortifyingadjective, in the sense "causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name embarrassing as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- awkwardawkward is an adjective in the sense "hard to deal with"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under embarrassing and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
The embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles.
The true synonym
mortifying
Same sentence, swapped: The mortifying moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where embarrassing stands in the sentence above.
- mysterious
- disturbing
- upsetting
Where embarrassing turns up in the game
embarrassing is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where embarrassing is the trap
- awkwardadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is clumsy, in the sense "difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape", so embarrassing is there to be ruled out.
Play embarrassing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so embarrassing reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other words at High Camp, then their alphabetical neighbours.
One vocabulary, two jobs
embarrassing is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.