Dictionary

compromising en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Willing or able to make a compromise.
2. That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging.
3. (broadly) That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging. ▸ Embarrassing; scandalous; suggestive; incriminating.
   • A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.

Forms

Deriveds

noncompromising · immunocompromising · uncompromising · compromisingly

Synonyms

transigent

Translations (5)

ca comprometedor (incriminating) · bg компрометиращ (incriminating) · sv komprometterande (incriminating) · es comprometedor (incriminating) · ru компрометирующий (incriminating)

compromising en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The act by which something is compromised.
   • 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! 1835, Leigh Hunt, The Monthly Repository, volume 9, page 793:

Forms

compromising en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of compromise.
   form of compromise