humiliating

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mil‧i‧at‧ing

Adjective

humiliating (comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating)

1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• humiliatingly

Translations

liable to humiliate

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: alçaldıcı Catalan: humiliant (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 讓人感到羞辱的／让人感到羞辱的 (ràng rén gǎndào xiūrǔ de) Dutch: vernederend (nl) Finnish: nöyryyttävä French: humiliant (fr) Galician: humillante (gl) Georgian: დამამცირებელი (damamcirebeli) German: erniedrigend (de), entwürdigend (de) Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍃 (agls) Hungarian: megalázó (hu) Icelandic: niðurlægjandi, auðmýkjandi, lítillækkandi Italian: avvilente (it) Japanese: 屈辱的な (くつじょくてきな, kutsujokuteki na) Mauritian Creole: imilian Polish: upokarzający Portuguese: humilhante (pt) Russian: унизи́тельный (ru) (unizítelʹnyj), унижающий (ru) (unižajuščij) Spanish: humillante (es) Swedish: förödmjukande (sv), förnedrande (sv) Thai: น่าอับอาย (nâa àp aai) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

humiliating

1. present participle and gerund of humiliate

Noun

humiliating (countable and uncountable, plural humiliatings)

1. An act of humiliation.
   • 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76:

     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 […]