Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

humiliating

/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: hu-mil-i-at-ing
IPA: /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

verb

present participle and gerund of humiliate

noun

An act of humiliation.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"However, a coalition of foreign troops soon captured the capital, and Cixi was forced to flee the city and accept humiliating peace terms."
"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 […]"

Usage

Inflected Forms

more humiliating (comparative) most humiliating (superlative) humiliatings (plural)

Derived Forms

humiliatingly nonhumiliating unhumiliating

Synonyms

demeaning humbling mortifying

Rhymes With

affiliating

Questions

How do you pronounce humiliating?: The recorded pronunciation is /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/.
What does humiliating mean?: Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

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