mortifying; making a person feel ashamed; causing shame; embarrassing; very destructive to a person's dignity
shame, mortify, lower someone's pride, humble
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Humiliating Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Humiliate
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutof Humiliate
Adjective
1. causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
(synonym) demeaning, humbling, mortifying
(similar) undignified
Verb
1. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
(synonym) mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
(hypernym) hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
(hyponym) crush, smash, demolish
(derivation) humiliation
Humiliating Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Humiliation (also called stultification) is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It can be brought about through bullying, intimidation, physical or mental mistreatment or trickery, or by embarrassment if a person is revealed to have committed a socially or legally unacceptable act. Whereas humility can be sought alone as a means to de-emphasise the ego, humiliation must involve other person(s), though not necessarily directly or willingly. Acting to humiliate yourself may be linked to a personal belief (as with mortification of the flesh, with some religions), or it can be part of erotic humiliation where the belittling activity provides emotional and/or sexual arousal or heightened sensation.
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