Definition of Humiliating

1. Adjective. Causing awareness of your shortcomings. "Golf is a humbling game"

Exact synonyms: Demeaning, Humbling, Mortifying
Similar to: Undignified

Definition of Humiliating

1. Adjective. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of humiliate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Humiliating

1. humiliate [v] - See also: humiliate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Humiliating

humidness
humidnesses
humidor
humidors
humification
humifications
humified
humifies
humifuse
humify
humifying
humiliant
humiliate
humiliated
humiliates
humiliating
humiliatingly
humiliations
humiliator
humiliators
humiliatrix
humilities
humilitude
humin
humiri
humita
humitas
humite

Literary usage of Humiliating

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

1. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"Humiliating Spectacle of New York.—" Ringing of a Little Bell. ... Now follows the humiliating spectacle of the subjugation of the State government of New ..."

2. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1903)
"... Humiliating RECEPTION IN ROME—H1s SUDDEN DEATH—LEWIS IN LOWER ITALY —CONCEPTION OF THE IMPERIUM AT THIS TIME— LEWIS'S LETTER TO THE EMPEROR OF ..."

3. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"What the South had accomplished—Comparison of Material Strength between North and South—Humiliating Result to the Warlike Reputation of the North. ..."

4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"It is an humiliating proof of the degradation of Christendom, that the Venetians were reduced to purchase the luxuries of Asia by supplying the ..."

5. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1880)
"... variable Moods — She attempts to deceive Walsingham — Her Injustice to Heneage — His Perplexity and Distress — Humiliating Position of Leicester — His ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1770)
"... is far from making us forgetful of, or unthankful for, the privileges we enjoy, though under the humiliating idea of a ..."

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