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, published 2004, page 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...

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