Embarrassing means making somebody feel awkward and self-conscious. An embarrassing mistake, deeply embarrassing, how embarrassing.
It is the standard double-r double-s spelling that everybody has to check. What counts as embarrassing is almost entirely social, since the same act alone in a room is nothing at all.
1adjectiveembarrassingMaking somebody feel awkward and self-conscious.
“It was so embarrassing when I called my teacher 'Mum' in front of the whole class.”
embarrassing is a quality.
French
embarrasser
English
embarrass
English, today
embarrassing
Built from
by surface analysis, embarrass + -ing. embarrass Borrowed from French embarrasser. Borrowed from French embarrasser, from Middle French embarrasser, embarasser (“to embarrass; to block, obstruct”), from Spanish embarazar, either from Italian imbarazzare or from Portuguese embaraçar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA