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1 Humiliating -- rank: 1000

Humiliating definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary HUMIL'IATING, ppr. Humbling; depressing ... your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1757 extremely destructive to ... v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Humiliating.] [L. humiliatus, p. p. of humiliare. See Humble.] To reduce ... encouraged. --M. Arnold. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If something is humiliating, it embarrasses you and makes you feel ashamed and stupid. The Conservatives have suffered a humiliating defeat... = crushing ADJ • humiliatingly Thousands of men struggled humiliatingly for ...

2 Ignominious -- rank: 517

... shame ; dishonorable 2. deserving of shame or infamy ; despicable 3. humiliating, degrading < suffered an ignominious defeat > • ignominiously adverb • ignominiousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 causing or deserving ignominy. 2 humiliating. Derivatives: ignominiously adv. ignominiousness n. Etymology: ME f. F ignominieux ... Deserving ignominy; despicable. One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift. 3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence. --Macaulay. Collin's ... shows a great lack of success. (FORMAL) ...their ignominious defeat... = humiliating ADJ • ignominiously Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing ...

3 Humiliate -- rank: 446

... make humble; injure the dignity or self-respect of. Derivatives: humiliating adj. humiliatingly adv. humiliation n. humiliator n. Etymology: LL humiliare ... v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Humiliating.] [L. humiliatus, p. p. of humiliare. See Humble.] To reduce ... rather than encouraged. --M. Arnold. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (humiliates, humiliating, humiliated) To humiliate someone means to say or do something ...

4 Mortifying -- rank: 446

... to gangrene or sphacelus. 1. Subduing; humbling; restraining. 2. a. Humiliating; tending to humble or abase. He met with a mortifying ... your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mortify Mor"ti*fy, v ... etc.; as, mortifying penances. 3. Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If you ...

5 humiliatingly -- rank: 446

... definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a humiliating manner; "the painting was reproduced humiliatingly small" [syn: humiliatingly, demeaningly] Merriam Webster's adverb see humiliating Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see humiliating

6 Degrading -- rank: 352

... characterized by dishonor [syn: debasing, degrading] Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. humiliating; causing a loss of self-respect. Derivatives: degradingly adv. Webster ... demotion, deplorable, depluming, discreditable, disgraceful, disgrading, displuming, downgrading, gutter, humbling, humiliating, humiliative, infra dig, infra indignitatem, insolent, insulting, left-handed, lowering ...

7 demeaning -- rank: 352

... your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Demean De*mean", v. t ... one, cheap, common, debasing, degrading, deplorable, disadvantaged, disgraceful, gutter, humble, humiliating, humiliative, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, infra indignitatem, junior ...

8 Indignity -- rank: 352

... against a person's dignity or self-respect ; insult b. humiliating treatment 2. obsolete lack or loss of dignity or honor ... 1 unworthy treatment. 2 a slight or insult. 3 the humiliating quality of something (the indignity of my position). Etymology: F ...

9 shameful -- rank: 352

... gross, gutter, hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, humbling, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra ... accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shabby, shady, shamefaced, shamefast, shameless, shaming ...

10 Sorry -- rank: 352

... disgraceful, dismal, full of remorse, gaudy, gimcracky, grim, gutter, heavyhearted, humiliating, humiliative, humorless, ignoble, ill-starred, in bad humor, inadequate, infestive ... accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shabby, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, shocking, shoddy ...

11 Contumelious -- rank: 352

... Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 15th century insolently abusive and humiliating • contumeliously adverb Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. reproachful, insulting, or insolent ... exclusive, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, familiar, forward, foul, fulminatory, haughty, hubristic, humiliating, impertinent, imprecatory, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, left-handed, libelous, maledictory ...

12 pratfall -- rank: 352

... Date: 1930 1. a fall on the buttocks 2. a humiliating mishap or blunder Oxford Reference Dictionary n. US sl. 1 a fall on the buttocks. 2 a humiliating failure. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (pratfalls) 1. If someone takes ...

13 Chagrin -- rank: 352

... chagrining) Date: 1733 to vex or unsettle by disappointing or humiliating < he was chagrined to learn that his help was not ... keen sense of pain which results from wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the ...

14 Offensive -- rank: 223

... hawkish, head-on attack, heinous, hideous, high, horrible, horrid, hostile, humiliating, icky, ignoble, ill-bred, ill-smelling, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent ...

15 left handed -- rank: 223

... gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, humiliating, indirect, inelegant, insolent, insulting, left-hand, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish ...