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# humiliating

«humiliating» in Mova's school dictionary: **Humiliating describes something that makes you feel very…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (humiliating, more humiliating, most humiliating); verb form (present participle of humiliate)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Humiliating describes something that makes you feel very ashamed and foolish in front of other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#m1)

2) Humiliating is also the -ing form of humiliate: making someone feel very ashamed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In feelings lessons and stories, a humiliating moment is falling over in public, being laughed at, or losing badly. Online, sharing humiliating photos or messages of others is a kind of bullying and must be reported. Phrases: a humiliating defeat, a humiliating experience, humiliating someone in public.

### examples

- Losing ten to nothing was a humiliating defeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x1)
- Being told off in front of the whole school was humiliating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x2)
- Posting a humiliating photo of someone is bullying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x3)
- It was humiliating when my trousers split in PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x4)
- Stop humiliating your little brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x5)
- The teacher made sure no one was laughed at, because that can be humiliating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x6)
- It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/#x7)

### note

-ing adjective (causes the feeling) vs -ed adjective «humiliated» (has the feeling). Stronger than «embarrassing». Synonym: «mortifying».

### In the corpora

- [Being laughed at by many people online can be very humiliating, so do not film pranks without agreement.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «humiliating» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliating/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.