Hyphenation of embarrassing

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word embarrassing? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

em-bar-rass-ing

Definitions of embarrassing:

1.	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
2.	Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation The embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles It was mortifying to know he had heard every word

Synonyms of embarrassing:

adj	awkward, sticky, unenviable, difficult, hard
adj	mortifying, unpleasant

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.