compromising

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of compromise.

comparative more compromising · superlative most compromising

1. Willing or able to make a compromise.

   Synonyms: transigent

2. That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging.
   1. broadlyEmbarrassing; scandalous; suggestive; incriminating.

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

plural compromisings

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