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humiliating en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
    • However, a coalition of foreign troops soon captured the capital, and Cixi was forced to flee the city and accept humiliating peace terms. 2026 July 15, “Cixi empress dowager of China”, in britannica.com:
    • 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. 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

Forms

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more humiliating Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most humiliating Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

humiliatingly · unhumiliating · nonhumiliating

Translations (28)

de erniedrigend (liable to humiliate) · got 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃 (liable to humiliate) · fr humiliant (liable to humiliate) · az alçaldıcı (liable to humiliate) · is lítillækkandi (liable to humiliate) · pt humilhante (liable to humiliate) · fi nöyryyttävä (liable to humiliate) · mfe imilian (liable to humiliate) · th น่าอับอาย (liable to humiliate) · is auðmýkjandi (liable to humiliate) · pl upokarzający (liable to humiliate) · nl vernederend (liable to humiliate) · ru унижающий (liable to humiliate) · ru унизи́тельный (liable to humiliate) · sv förödmjukande (liable to humiliate) · is niðurlægjandi (liable to humiliate) · tr aşağılayıcı (liable to humiliate) · ka დამამცირებელი (liable to humiliate) · gl humillante (liable to humiliate) · ja 屈辱的な (liable to humiliate) · de entwürdigend (liable to humiliate) · es humillante (liable to humiliate) · it avvilente (liable to humiliate) · ca humiliant (liable to humiliate) · hu megalázó (liable to humiliate) · it umiliante (liable to humiliate) · cmn 讓人感到羞辱的 /让人感到羞辱的 (liable to humiliate) · sv förnedrande (liable to humiliate)

humiliating en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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 […] 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76:

Forms

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humiliatings Number=Plur lexicographic

humiliating en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of humiliate
    form of humiliate