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HUMILIATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does humiliating mean?
• HUMILIATING (adjective)
The adjective HUMILIATING has 1 sense:
1. causing awareness of your shortcomings
Familiarity information: HUMILIATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing awareness of your shortcomings
Synonyms:
demeaning; humbling; humiliating; mortifying
Context example:
golf is a humbling game
Similar:
undignified (lacking dignity)
Context examples
Charlotte the wife of Mr. Collins was a most humiliating picture!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was so humiliating to reflect on the constant deception practised on her father and Elizabeth; to consider the various sources of mortification preparing for them!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Under these circumstances, alike humiliating to endure, humiliating to contemplate, and humiliating to relate, I have discharged the pecuniary liability contracted at this establishment, by giving a note of hand, made payable fourteen days after date, at my residence, Pentonville, London.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Bad indeed must the nature of Marianne's affliction be, when her mother could talk of fortitude! mortifying and humiliating must be the origin of those regrets, which SHE could wish her not to indulge!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
How humiliating is this discovery!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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