compromising — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Willing or able to make a compromise.

   Synonyme

   transigent

2. That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging.

3. That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging. Embarrassing; scandalous; suggestive; incriminating.

   Gebrauch

   • broadly

   Beispiele

   A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.

Substantiv

1. The act by which something is compromised.

   Beispiele

   There hath been much of treason, And much of violence and shame, To the old worship of that spring-life season; And compromisings of a sacred claim!

Adjektiv

1. making or willing to make concessions

   Synonyme

   conciliatoryflexible

   Antonyme

   uncompromising

   Beispiele

   loneliness tore through him … whenever he thought of … even the compromising Louis du Tillet

2. vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion

   Beispiele

   she found herself in a compromising situation