'Compromising' definitions:
Definition of 'compromising'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion; "she found herself in a compromising situation"
Definition of 'Compromising'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. [1913 Webster]
- The controversy may easily be compromised. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. --Motley. [1913 Webster]