humiliated

[hyoo-mil-ee-ey-tid, yoo-]

adjective

1. made to feel a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; deeply embarrassed or put to shame.

   The strategy of the verbal abuser is to become the winner of every conversational debate and make the other person the humiliated loser.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of humiliate.

Other Word Forms

• unhumiliated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of humiliated¹

First recorded in 1760–70; humiliate + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; humiliate + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

His team had just been humiliated in front of 50,000 people, so to then have to speak to TV and radio is incredibly difficult.

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They doubled that total in the space of 19 first-half minutes, before leaving the Welsh capital humiliated.

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“I was then left in the cell naked, bloodied, and completely humiliated,” Mendoza said in his statement.

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He said the Thai official had "humiliated, insulted and showed a lack of respect" to Ms Bosch, and committed the "serious abuse of having called security to intimidate a defenceless woman".

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Journalist and former BBC presenter Mark Mardell was left feeling 'humiliated' after he was told he could not board a Turkish Airlines flight due to having Parkinson's disease and no doctor's report.

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Related Words

• ashamed 
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