Difference between Embarrassing and Unpleasant

What is the difference between Embarrassing and Unpleasant?

Embarrassing as an adjective is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness while Unpleasant as an adjective is not pleasant.

Embarrassing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action of the verb to embarrass.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness

Example sentence: It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

Unpleasant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not pleasant.

Example sentence: I'd rather not think about the unpleasant side of the experience. 'Bigg Boss' is the biggest reality-show in India and perhaps in the world. I went into it on a clean slate.

We hope you now know whether to use Embarrassing or Unpleasant in your sentence.

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