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1. Causing to feel shame, chagrin or vexation
   "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles";
   - mortifying
    
2. Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
   "embarrassing moments in the discussion";
   - awkward, sticky, unenviable

1. Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
   "One would think that Owen's failure even to pick up the hammer at the bell-ringing contest would thoroughly embarrass him, but he laughed about it";
   - abash
    
2. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
   "His brother embarrassed him at every turn";
   - obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy [rare]

See also: cringeworthy, cringey, cringy, difficult, hard, unpleasant

Type of: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, untune, upset

Encyclopedia: Embarrassing