humiliating

Meanings

• Adjective

  Causing deep feelings of shame, embarrassment, or disgrace.

  - "His humiliating defeat in the election left him devastated."
  - "The bully's humiliating taunts made the new student cry."

• Verb

  Inflicting shame or embarrassment on someone.

  - "The coach humiliated the player in front of the team."
  - "She humiliated herself by forgetting the words to the national anthem."

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Antonyms

dignify , honor

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Synonyms

debase , demean , disgrace , humble , mortify , shame

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with humiliating
frightening , insulting , painting

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Variants

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humiliating , humiliatingly , humiliate , humiliated , humiliates , humiliation , humiliations

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Forms

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humiliated, humiliatingly, humiliates, humiliator, humiliation

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Etymology

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From the Latin word 'humiliare,' meaning 'to make low,' 'to humble.'

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Trivia

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1. The term 'humiliate' was first used in English in the late 15th century.

2. In ancient Rome, slaves who had committed serious offenses were sometimes paraded through the streets in chains as a form of public humiliation.

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Related Concepts

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1. Shame: A complex emotion that includes feelings of embarrassment, disgrace, and self-consciousness. Humiliating experiences often involve feelings of shame.

2. Embarrassment: A feeling of awkwardness, self-consciousness, or unease, especially when one is the focus of other people's attention or when one perceives that one has done something foolish.

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Culture

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In literature, humiliating experiences are often used to illustrate character development and growth. For instance, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' the protagonist Raskolnikov undergoes a humiliating experience that leads him to confess his crime and seek redemption.

How to Memorize "humiliating"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person being publicly shamed or embarrassed to remember the meaning of humiliating.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word humiliating with feelings of shame and embarrassment to remember its meaning.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic phrase, such as 'Humiliating: Humiliation Under My Insults Is A Nasty Thing' to remember the meaning of the word.

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