Humiliating HUMIL'IATING, ppr. Humbling; depressing.
1. Abating pride; reducing self-confidence; mortifying.

humiliating adj 1: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]

humiliating adjective Date: 1757 extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity ; humbling • humiliatingly adverb

humiliating If something is humiliating, it embarrasses you and makes you feel ashamed and stupid. The Conservatives have suffered a humiliating defeat... = crushing ADJ • humiliatingly Thousands of men struggled humiliatingly for jobs... He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title. ADV: usu ADV after v, ADV adj/-ed, also ADV with cl

Humiliate \Hu*mil"i*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Humiliating.] [L. humiliatus, p. p. of humiliare. See Humble.] To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify. We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. --M. Arnold.

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "humiliating": abusive, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, beneath one, calumnious, chastening, cheap, contumelious, crushing, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disconcerting, disgraceful, disturbing, embarrassing, gutter, humbling, humiliative, infra dig, infra indignitatem, insolent, insulting, left-handed, mortifying, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, pitiful, sad, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shameful, shocking, sorry, too bad, unbecoming, unspeakable, unworthy of one

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