EMBARRASSING


Meaning of EMBARRASSING in English

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , prove , sound

▪ become , get

▪ make sth

My mother's presence made the situation even more ~.

▪ find sb/sth

I found the whole evening deeply ~.

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ acutely ( esp. BrE ), deeply , excruciatingly , highly , particularly , terribly , toe-curlingly ( BrE )

a deeply ~ moment

▪ increasingly

▪ almost

▪ a little , slightly , etc.

▪ potentially

▪ politically

PREPOSITION

▪ for

It was acutely ~ for us all.

▪ to

This latest incident could be ~ to the government.

Embarrassing is used with these nouns: ↑ defeat , ↑ error , ↑ incident , ↑ memory , ↑ mistake , ↑ moment , ↑ muddle , ↑ position , ↑ question , ↑ revelation , ↑ silence , ↑ situation , ↑ snub , ↑ subject , ↑ U-turn

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .