embarrassingly

副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋli/|/ɛm-/    美 /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/|/ɛm-/

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In an embarrassing manner.
    — He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
  2. To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
    — He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.
  3. Causing embarrassment.
    — Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.

词形变化

more embarrassingly comparative most embarrassingly superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
embarrassingly parallel

词源

Etymology tree
English embarrassing
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English embarrassingly
From embarrassing + -ly.
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