compromising

Willing or able to make a compromise.

Adjective

  1. Willing or able to make a compromise.

    Synonyms: transigent

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

    1. (by extension) Embarrassing; scandalous; suggestive; incriminating.

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

Forms

more compromising most compromising

Derived

compromisingly immunocompromising noncompromising uncompromising

Noun

  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

compromisings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of compromise.