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- Dictionaryhumiliating/hjʊˈmɪlɪeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. making someone feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and pride: "a humiliating defeat"
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humiliating adjective, at humiliate; humiliate; humiliating defeat; See all meanings
: extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity : humbling. humiliatingly adverb. Examples of humiliating in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web Producers are accused of traumatizing and humiliating Tran during the staging of a reunion with Strader by playing the proposal after detailing their split.
: to reduce (someone) to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes : to make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed : mortify. hoped they wouldn't humiliate themselves in their next game. accused her of humiliating him in public. feel so humiliated. humiliation. hyü-ˌmi-lē-ˈā-shən. yü- noun. Synonyms. abase. chasten. cheapen. debase. degrade.
Humiliating definition: lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying. See examples of HUMILIATING used in a sentence.
Something that humbles you and makes you feel foolish is humiliating: it's humiliating to sing your song for the school talent show in the wrong key, and it's even more humiliating when the audience laughs.
to make someone feel ashamed or lose respect for himself or herself: How could you humiliate me by questioning my judgment in front of everyone like that? England were humiliated (= completely defeated) in last night's match. Synonyms. demean. mortify. Compare. humble verb. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humiliating and degrading.
Define humiliating. humiliating synonyms, humiliating pronunciation, humiliating translation, English dictionary definition of humiliating. tr.v. hu·mil·i·at·ed , hu·mil·i·at·ing , hu·mil·i·ates To cause to feel a loss of pride, dignity, or self-respect: humiliated him with a contemptuous...
If something is humiliating, it embarrasses you and makes you feel ashamed and stupid.
Humiliate means to make someone feel ashamed or stupid, often publicly. It would humiliate all but the most self-assured person to realize that everyone else in the room has noticed their fly is down.
Definition of humiliating adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
