embarrassingly

1. 1.

   causing embarrassment

   “the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing”

Questions about embarrassingly

What does embarrassingly mean?

embarrassingly means "causing embarrassment".

How many syllables are in embarrassingly?

embarrassingly has 5 syllables: em-bar-ras-sin-gly. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ɪmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/.

Is embarrassingly a common word?

embarrassingly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.