humiliant

English

Etymology

Latin humilians, present participle of humiliare.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hjuːˈmɪliənt/

Adjective

humiliant (comparative more humiliant, superlative most humiliant)

  1. humiliating; humbling
    • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
      But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
      By my percipiency of sin and fall
      In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for humiliant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Catalan

Verb

humiliant

  1. present participle of humiliar

French

Pronunciation
  • (mute h) IPA(key): /y.mi.ljɑ̃/
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Participle

humiliant

  1. present participle of humilier

Adjective

humiliant (feminine humiliante, masculine plural humiliants, feminine plural humiliantes)

  1. humiliating
    Near-synonym: avilissant

Further reading

Latin

Verb

humiliant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of humiliō
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