- demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
Antonym: dignified (indirect, via undignified)
- humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
--1 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun humiliation1, noun humiliation2, noun humiliation3, noun humiliation4
Sam cannot humiliate Sue