mortified

Meanings

• feeling intense shame or embarrassment

  - "She felt mortified when she tripped and fell in front of everyone."
  - "The student was mortified when the teacher called on him to answer a question that he had not prepared for."

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Antonyms

dignify , honor

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Synonyms

macerate , demean , humiliate , shame

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with mortified
borrow , morrow , sorrow

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Homophones

Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

1. ["humiliate", "humility", "hymn", "hygiene", "hymen", "hyena", "hyacinth", "hydrangea""]
   

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Variants

List of all variants of mortified that leads to same result
mortified , mortifies , mortify , mortifying

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Forms

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["mortified (adj)": "feeling intense shame or embarrassment", "mortified (v)": "to feel intense shame or embarrassment", "mortified (past tense v)": "to have felt intense shame or embarrassment", "mortify (v)": "to make dead or lifeless; to kill the spirit, put out the light of the mind; to make insensible or powerless; to humble or abase; to oppress or crush"]

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'deadened with fear or shame'; from Old French mortifier 'to kill, put to death; to make dead or lifeless; to kill the spirit, put out the light of the mind; to make insensible or powerless; to humble or abase; to oppress or crush' <https://www.etymonline.com/word/mortify>

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Culture

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In literature, mortified is often used to describe a character's intense shame or embarrassment. For example, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the character Tom Buchanan is described as feeling mortified when he realizes that his wife Daisy has been having an affair with Gatsby.

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