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[syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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 cause a loss of pride or dignity; to
humble; to mortify.
[1913 Webster]
We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. --M.
Arnold.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
humiliating \humiliating\ adj.
causing humiliation. [Narrower terms: undignified (vs.
dignified)]
Syn: demeaning, humbling, mortifying.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
humiliating
adj 1: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a
humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling,
humiliating, mortifying]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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