Adjacent Words

Compromising definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPROMISING, ppr. Adjusting by agreement.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising]
2: vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion; "she found herself in a compromising situation"

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Compromise Com"pro*mise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compromised; p. pr. & vb. n. Compromising.] [From Compromise, n.; cf. Compromit.] 1. To bind by mutual agreement; to agree. [Obs.] Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. --Shak. 2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. The controversy may easily be compromised. --Fuller. 3. To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. --Motley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe information or a situation as compromising, you mean that it reveals an embarrassing or guilty secret about someone. How had this compromising picture come into the possession of the press? ADJ: usu ADJ n