• adj.
    ⦿causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
    lexical concept
  • it was mortifying to know he had heard every word
  • the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:embarrassing
  2. enl:mortifying
wn:interlingual indexili:i9903

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelembarrassingmortifying