humiliating

B2
US /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
adj noun verb Freq #7230

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

    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.

  2. 2
    noun

    An act of humiliation.

    We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]

  3. 3
    adj

    causing awareness of your shortcomings

  4. 4
    verb

    present participle and gerund of humiliate

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 adj · causing awareness of your... demeaning

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