Humiliation

English

Noun

Humiliation (plural Humiliations)

1. The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
2. The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

Synonyms

• abasement
• dishonor
• embarrassment
• humbling
• shame, shaming

Related terms

• humble
• humiliate
• humiliating
• humility

Adjectives for Humiliation

painful; jovial; utter; imagined; frequent; just; ineffable; anticipated; profound; deep; unmerited; subsequent.

Verbs for Humiliation

bow in—; break in—; deserve—; end in— expose to—; incur—; inure to—; invite— go down in—; kneel in—; overcome with— pretend—; purchase by—; resign to—; sink in—; submit to—; suffer—; walk in—; — humbles; —shames; —tortures.

Thesaurus

abasement, affront, aspersion, atrocity, awkwardness, belittlement, breaking, brickbat, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach, comedown, conquering, contempt, contumely, crushing, cut, cut direct, debasement, deflation, degradation, depreciation, derogation, descent, despite, detraction, dirty shame, disconcertedness, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, disregard, domestication, dump, embarrassment, enormity, flout, flouting, gentling, gibe, hangdog look, humbled pride, humbling, ignominy, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeering, letdown, low-down dirty shame, mock, mockery, mortification, obloquy, offense, outrage, put-down, quelling, rebuff, reduction, reproach, repulse, scandal, scoff, scurrility, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shaming, slight, sneer, sniff, snort, snub, spurn, spurning, subdual, suppression, taming, taunt, the cold shoulder, the go-by, treading down, uncomplimentary remark

Etymology

< Late Latin humiliatio < humiliare (“to humiliate”); see humiliate.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, SAMPA: /hju:%mIli"eIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Translations

the act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification

Arabic: إذلال (ar) ('idhlaal) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 羞辱 (cmn) (xiūrǔ), 恥辱 (cmn), 耻辱 (cmn) (chǐrǔ), 屈辱 (cmn) (qūrǔ), 污辱 (cmn) (wūrǔ) Czech: ponížení (cs) n. Dutch: vernedering (nl) French: humiliation (fr) f. German: Demütigung (de) f., Erniedrigung (de) f.

Indonesian: penghinaan Japanese: 屈辱 (ja) (くつじょく, kutsujoku), 汚辱 (ja) (おじょく, ojoku) Norwegian: ydmykelse Polish: upokorzenie (pl) n. Russian: унижение (ru) (unižénije) n. Serbian: понижавање (sr) (ponižavanje) n. Spanish: humillación (es) Swedish: förödmjukelse c. Volapük: mükükam (vo)

the state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission

Czech: ponížení (cs) n. Dutch: vernedering (nl) French: humiliation (fr) f. German: Demütigung (de) f., Erniedrigung (de) f. Indonesian: penghinaan

Norwegian: ydmykelse Polish: upokorzenie (pl) n. Russian: унижение (ru) (unižénije) n. Serbian: понижeње (sr) (poniženje) n. Swedish: förödmjukelse c.

External links

• Humiliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Humiliation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

---

French

Etymology

From humilier 'to humiliate' (itself from Latin humiliare, from humilis 'humble') + -ation

Pronunciation

• Audio (Paris)

  noicon

  (file)

Noun

Humiliation f. (plural Humiliations)

1. A humiliation, active or passive

   Alors que l'humiliation d'une fessée cul-nu en présence du petit frère qu'il a abusé blesse l'orgueil de Pascal pire que sa peau, assister à son humiliation répare la fierté du petit

   While the humiliation of a bare-butt spanking in the presence of the kid brother he had abused hurts Pascal's pride worse then his hide, witnessing his humbling restores the kid's pride

Synonyms

• abaissement m.

Related terms

• humiliant

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition