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Humiliating definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Moby Thesaurus

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