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say it: uh-NEN-vee-uh-buhl
unenviable is an adjective meaning "hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment". It carries 2 recorded senses.
hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
“awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion”
“an awkward pause followed his remark”
“a sticky question”
“in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign”
so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy
“unenviable notoriety”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unenviable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.