Definition of Mortifying

1. Adjective. Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation. "It was mortifying to know he had heard every word"

Exact synonyms: Embarrassing
Similar to: Unpleasant

2. Adjective. Causing awareness of your shortcomings. "Golf is a humbling game"
Exact synonyms: Demeaning, Humbling, Humiliating
Similar to: Undignified

Definition of Mortifying

1. a. Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.

Definition of Mortifying

1. Verb. (present participle of mortify) ¹

2. Adjective. Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mortifying

1. mortify [v] - See also: mortify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortifying

morticers
mortices
mortician
morticians
morticing
mortiferous
mortific
mortification
mortifications
mortified
mortifiedness
mortifier
mortifiers
mortifies
mortify
mortifying (current term)
mortifyingly
mortis
mortise
mortise-and-tenon joint
mortise-and-tenon joints
mortise joint
mortised
mortiser
mortisers
mortises
mortising
mortling
mortlings
mortmain

Literary usage of Mortifying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poems by Edward Sandford Martin (1914)
"A mortifying SUBJECT WHAT is to be, I do not know: What is, I do esteem To be so undesirable And worthless, that I deem There must be something good in ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(32) Aurelian, who considered the war as totally extinguished, received the mortifying intelligence of the escape of the ..."

3. The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George by Tobias George Smollett (1800)
"His conduct was no lets agreeable to his Sovereign, than mortifying to the Dutch, who never dreamed of leaving Ghent and Bruges in the hands of the ..."

4. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"But, notwithstanding the mortifying results of so many prognostics and preparations, and the ridicule which attached to it, Mary still cherished the ..."

5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by John Hawkins (1787)
"... to politics, and even to morality, altogether indifferent. Nor could he be ignorant of that mortifying dependence which the ..."

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