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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. making or willing to make concessions;
- Example: "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
[syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible]

2. vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion;
- Example: "she found herself in a compromising situation"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

compromising 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"