humiliation

Meaning

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

Synonyms

abasement

shame

disgrace

degradation

mortification

insult

ignominy

dishonour

disrespect

contempt

dishonor

indignity

chagrin

embarrassment

abjection

derogation

baffle

humiliate

prostration

destruction

deterioration

diminishment

dip

discredit

disrating

disregard

dropping

failure

fall

harassment

injury

exinanition

lowering

mockery

abatement

opprobrium

pressure

prolapse

pulling down

reduction

relegation

retrenchment

ridicule

ruin

shameless

sinking

slander

stoop

subjugation

subsidence

Translations

humiliation

humillación

Demütigung

Erniedrigung

umiliazione

humilhação

abaissement

ταπείνωση

vernedering

humiliació

avvilimento

εξευτελισμός

smacco

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle French humiliation, from Late Latin humiliātiō, from humiliāre (“to humiliate”); see humiliate. Equivalent to humiliate + -ion.