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Webster 1828 Edition


Humiliating

HUMIL'IATING

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ppr.
Humbling; depressing.
1.
Abating pride; reducing self-confidence; mortifying.

Definition 2024


humiliating

humiliating

English

Adjective

humiliating (comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating)

  1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

Translations

Verb

humiliating

  1. present participle of humiliate