embarrassable

embarrassable

English

Etymology

From embarrass +‎ -able.

Adjective

embarrassable (comparative more embarrassable, superlative most embarrassable)

1. Capable of being embarrassed.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 144:

     But true scientists should not be embarrassable.

   • 2009, Mark R. Leary, Rick H. Hoyle, Handbook of individual differences in social behavior (page 186)

     Highly embarrassable people think that they blush more frequently and more conspicuously than others...

Antonyms

• unembarrassable

Derived terms

• embarrassability