humiliating

Language: en

🇺🇸 /hjuːˈmɪliːˌeɪtɪŋ/

📖 Definitions

  1. adjective
    Causing someone to feel ashamed, foolish, or losing dignity; deeply embarrassing.
  2. verb
    Present participle of 'humiliate'; causing someone to feel ashamed or foolish.

🔗 Details

Word forms

3rd sing.: humiliates Past: humiliated Past part.: humiliated Pres part.: humiliating

Collocations

humiliating experiencehumiliating defeathumiliating lossdeeply humiliatingpublicly humiliating

Derivatives

humiliationhumiliatinghumiliatinglyhumiliated

Synonyms

degradingdemeaningmortifyingembarrassingshameful

Antonyms

honoringdignifyingflattering

Commonly confused

humbling
EN: 'Humbling' means making someone modest or aware of their limitations, often positively; 'humiliating' means causing shame and loss of dignity, always negative.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember that 'humiliate' has only one 'l' (not 'humilliate'). The related noun is 'humiliation' with a single 'l' as well.

💬 Examples

  1. It was humiliating to be fired in front of all his colleagues.

  2. The teacher was humiliating the student by reading his poor essay aloud.