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humiliating

Syllables: hu·mil·i·at·ing/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

humiliating adjective: liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone. Also the present participle and gerund of humiliate.

Adjective

humiliating (comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating)

  1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
    • 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.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
    • However, a coalition of foreign troops soon captured the capital, and Cixi was forced to flee the city and accept humiliating peace terms.2026 July 15, “Cixi empress dowager of China”, in britannica.com

Noun

humiliating (countable and uncountable, plural humiliatings)

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

Also used as

humiliating is also the present participle and gerund of humiliate.

humiliating meaning in Urdu and Thai

humiliating in Urdu

ذلت آمیز

humiliating in Thai

liable to humiliate
น่าอับอาย nâa àp aai

Examples of humiliating in a sentence

  • The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.
  • Admiral Middlebrooks laid down his flag as a result of the humiliating defeat at the hands of France.
  • Dunking on fools may feel good, but humiliating QAnoners risks driving them further down the rabbit hole.

All 22 example sentences with humiliating

Forms of humiliating

Adjective
comparativemore humiliating
superlativemost humiliating
Noun
pluralhumiliatings

Words formed from humiliating

Questions about humiliating

What does humiliating mean?
Humiliating means liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
What is humiliating in Urdu?
Humiliating in Urdu is ذلت آمیز. See Humiliating meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is humiliating?
Humiliating can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce humiliating?
Humiliating is pronounced /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/.

Words near humiliating in the dictionary

  1. humiliatable
  2. humiliate
  3. humiliated
  4. humiliates
  5. Humiliati
  6. humiliating
  7. humiliatingly
  8. humiliatings
  9. humiliation
  10. humiliation play
  11. humiliation ritual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humiliating (page history and authors); humiliating (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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