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It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
Ray Comfort

Meaning of "embarrassingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EMBARRASSINGLY

embarrassingly  [ɪmˈbærəsɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMBARRASSINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Embarrassingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES EMBARRASSINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

embarrassingly

Embarrassment

Embarrassment is an emotional state of intense discomfort with oneself, experienced upon having a socially unacceptable act or condition witnessed by or revealed to others. Usually some amount of loss of honor or dignity is involved, but how much and the type depends on the embarrassing situation. It is similar to shame, except that shame may be experienced for an act known only to oneself. Also, embarrassment usually carries the connotation of being caused by an act that is merely socially unacceptable, rather than morally wrong.

Definition of embarrassingly in the English dictionary

The definition of embarrassingly in the dictionary is in a way that makes you feel ashamed and self-conscious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMBARRASSINGLY


bouncingly
ˈbaʊnsɪŋlɪ
bracingly
ˈbreɪsɪŋlɪ
convincingly
kənˈvɪnsɪŋlɪ
decreasingly
diːˈkriːsɪŋlɪ
depressingly
dɪˈprɛsɪŋlɪ
distressingly
dɪsˈtresɪŋlɪ
enticingly
ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋlɪ
glancingly
ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋlɪ
increasingly
ɪnˈkriːsɪŋlɪ
menacingly
ˈmɛnɪsɪŋlɪ
perplexingly
pəˈpleksɪŋlɪ
piercingly
ˈpɪəsɪŋlɪ
pressingly
ˈprɛsɪŋlɪ
promisingly
ˈprɒmɪsɪŋlɪ
rejoicingly
rɪˈdʒɔɪsɪŋlɪ
surpassingly
sɜːˈpɑːsɪŋlɪ
taxingly
ˈtæksɪŋlɪ
unceasingly
ʌnˈsiːsɪŋlɪ
unconvincingly
ˌʌnkənˈvɪnsɪŋlɪ
vexingly
ˈvɛksɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMBARRASSINGLY

embar
embarcadero
embarcation
embargo
embark
embarkation
embarkation card
embarkment
embarquement
embarras de choix
embarras de richesses
embarrass
embarrassable
embarrassed
embarrassedly
embarrassing
embarrassment
embase
embasement
embassade

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMBARRASSINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
shockingly
sickeningly
singly
sparingly
strikingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of embarrassingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «embarrassingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMBARRASSINGLY

Find out the translation of embarrassingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of embarrassingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «embarrassingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

尴尬
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

embarazosamente
570 millions of speakers

English

embarrassingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शर्मिंदगी महसूस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محرج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ошеломляюще
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

embaraçosamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

embarrassingly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

manière embarrassante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memalukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

peinlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

あきれるほどに
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

황당 할
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Embarrassingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bối rối
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இக்கட்டான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लाजीरवाणीपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

utandırıcı bir şekilde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imbarazzante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żenująco
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приголомшливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jenant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

embarrassingly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verpletterend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pinsamt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pinlig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of embarrassingly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMBARRASSINGLY»

The term «embarrassingly» is regularly used and occupies the 79.963 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMBARRASSINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «embarrassingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «embarrassingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about embarrassingly

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7 QUOTES WITH «EMBARRASSINGLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word embarrassingly.
1
John Banville
My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold.
2
Kristen Bell
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
3
Eleanor Clift
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
4
Ray Comfort
It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
5
Jonathan Dee
Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.
6
Sheridan Smith
When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for this,' but the rest weren't big choices, really. 'Hedda Gabler' was a phone call offering it to me, and as I've said before quite embarrassingly, I didn't know the play, so I didn't sit there thinking 'I would now like to tackle Ibsen.'
7
Sam Trammell
I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMBARRASSINGLY»

Discover the use of embarrassingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to embarrassingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Embarrassingly Blind: Finding the Elephant in the Room
Embarrassingly, Democrats on the committee did their best to interfere with regulators in order to cover-up for Raines. They tried, shamelessly, to paint the regulator as being a racist. The housing crisis is far from over and we could be facing a ...
Nelse Wynne, Jr., 2012
2
The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
—Mark Twain The term embarrassingly parallel is heard often in talk about parallel R (and in the parallel processing field in general). The word embarrassing alludes to the fact that the problems are so easy to parallelize that there is no ...
Norman Matloff, Norman S. Matloff, 2011
3
Mastering Cloud Computing:
Embarrassingly parallelapplicationsconstitutethemost simpleand intuitive category of distributedapplications.Asalready discussedin the previous chapter, embarrassinglyparallel applications are constituted by a collectionoftasksthatare  ...
"Rajkumar Buyya, Christian Vecchiola, S Thamarai Selvi"
4
Mastering Cloud Computing: Foundations and Applications ...
Embarrassingly parallel applications constitute the most simple and intuitive category of distributed applications. As we discussed in Chapter 6, embarrassingly parallel applications constitute a collection of tasks that are independent from ...
Rajkumar Buyya, Christian Vecchiola, S.Thamarai Selvi, 2013
5
High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme-Scale ...
Many visualization algorithms are embarrassingly parallel, meaning each task can execute on its piece of the data without coordinating with the other tasks. Examples of algorithms that fit this embarrassingly parallel model are isosurface  ...
E. Wes Bethel, Hank Childs, Charles Hansen, 2012
6
How Fiction Works
14 James's genius gathers in one word: “embarrassingly.” That is where all the stress comes to rest. “Mrs. Wix was as safe as Clara Matilda, who was in heaven and yet, embarrassingly, also in Kensal Green, where they had been together to  ...
James Wood, 2008
7
Professional Parallel Programming with C#: Master Parallel ...
Not all the problems are embarrassingly parallel. However, there are many embarrassingly parallel algorithms out there, such as the previously explained examples. It is easier to understand the most important features offered by TPL working ...
Gastón Hillar, 2010
8
Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer ...
An embarrassingly parallel algorithm is one that naturally breaks into pieces that can easily be solved by separate processes. They require little communication among processes and ideally little work to combine results from different ...
Rod Stephens, 2013
9
Fuzzy Methods for Meta-genome Sequence Classification and ...
An embarrassingly parallel computing is a technique where a data set can be divided into completely equal independent tasks that execute simultaneously [71] . This also suggests that the only communication between the processors is when  ...
Sara Nasser, 2008
10
Computing Networks: From Cluster to Cloud Computing
An application exhibits finegrained parallelism if its subtasks must communicate many times per second; it exhibits coarse-grained parallelism if they do not communicate many times per second, and it is embarrassingly parallel if they rarely or ...
Pascale Vicat-Blanc, Brice Goglin, Romaric Guillier, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMBARRASSINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term embarrassingly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
5 Facts About Evan Spiegel, Snapchat's Often Controversial Co …
... lack of maturity, has been an easy poster boy for the Silicon Valley tech scene – smart, confident, innovative, but embarrassingly 'bro'-like. «Entrepreneur, Jul 15»
2
Shorten donor Lockyer cut controversial pay deal with Australian …
Even more embarrassingly for Mr Shorten, CoInvest – a union-backed company that allows workers to transport their long-service leave ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
3
No, Queer Women Aren't "Just Going Through A Phase"
It took me an embarrassingly long time for me to realize that the first sexual relationship I had with another woman wasn't just drunk ... «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
4
Don't go cash, go East Asia for investment alternatives
... East Asian economies continue to stand out in a world where developed countries are struggling with an embarrassingly high unemployment ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
5
Effort to train Syrians to fight ISIS off to slow start
... $500 million program to train 15,000 Syrian opposition fighters has gotten off to an embarrassingly slow start -- with just 60 recruits in training. «CBS News, Jul 15»
6
House Narrowly Approves Education Bill Over Conservative …
... marks a long-awaited turnaround for the bill almost six months after it was embarrassingly pulled from floor consideration when members and ... «National Journal, Jul 15»
7
After loss in season opener, Eskimos can get back on track with …
A lot of golfers have been awarded a “Mulligan” after an embarrassingly bad first drive over the years since. The Eskimos, because of the FIFA ... «Edmonton Sun, Jul 15»
8
This isn't the first US stock market 'glitch'
Embarrassingly, the rival of NYSE was forced to abandon its own debut as a public company because of technical problems. Don't panic: At the ... «KSPR, Jul 15»
9
Xie's wife denies lying to protect him0:35
... with nothing, except Tsakalotos who embarrassingly had a few bullet point notes he had jotted down on the bedside notepad from his hotel. «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
10
Bolivia: Morales greets Pope Francis in front of thousands of well …
... Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos turned up to a European leaders summit with nothing, except Tsakalotos who embarrassingly had ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Embarrassingly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/embarrassingly>. Apr 2024 ».
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