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- Dictionaryhu·mil·i·at·ing/(h)yo͞oˈmilēˌādiNG/
adjective
- 1. causing someone to feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect: "a humiliating defeat"
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The meaning of HUMILIATING is extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity : humbling.
The meaning of HUMILIATE is to reduce (someone) to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes : to make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed : mortify. How to use humiliate in a sentence.
humiliating adjective, at humiliate; humiliate; humiliating defeat; See all meanings
Humiliating definition: lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying. See examples of HUMILIATING used in a sentence.
verb (used with object) , hu·mil·i·at·ed, hu·mil·i·at·ing. to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity. Synonyms: debase, abase, degrade, shame, mortify, disgrace, dishonor. Antonyms: elevate, exalt, dignify. humiliate.
Something that humbles you and makes you feel foolish is humiliating: it's humiliating to sing your song for the school talent show in the wrong key, and it's even more humiliating when the audience laughs.
to make you feel ashamed or lose respect for yourself: They called him an old fool in public just to humiliate him.
Humiliate means to make someone feel ashamed or stupid, often publicly. It would humiliate all but the most self-assured person to realize that everyone else in the room has noticed their fly is down.
/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ Verb Forms. humiliate somebody/yourself/something to make somebody feel ashamed or stupid and lose the respect of other people. I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues. I've never felt so humiliated. How could I humiliate myself like that? The party was humiliated in the recent elections. Extra Examples.
Define humiliating. humiliating synonyms, humiliating pronunciation, humiliating translation, English dictionary definition of humiliating. tr.v. hu·mil·i·at·ed , hu·mil·i·at·ing , hu·mil·i·ates To cause to feel a loss of pride, dignity, or self-respect: humiliated him with a contemptuous...
