humiliating

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

humiliating
    adj 1: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a
           humbling game" [syn: {demeaning}, {humbling},
           {humiliating}, {mortifying}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

humiliating \humiliating\ adj.
   causing humiliation. [Narrower terms: {undignified (vs.
   dignified)}]

   Syn: demeaning, humbling, mortifying.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Humiliate \Hu*mil"i*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humiliated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Humiliating}.] [L. humiliatus, p. p. of
   humiliare. See {Humble}.]
   To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the
   eyes of others; to cause a loss of pride or dignity; to
   humble; to mortify.
   [1913 Webster]

         We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. --M.
                                                  Arnold.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "humiliating":
      abusive, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, beneath one,
      calumnious, chastening, cheap, contumelious, crushing, debasing,
      degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disconcerting, disgraceful,
      disturbing, embarrassing, gutter, humbling, humiliative, infra dig,
      infra indignitatem, insolent, insulting, left-handed, mortifying,
      offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, pitiful, sad, scandalous,
      scurrile, scurrilous, shameful, shocking, sorry, too bad,
      unbecoming, unspeakable, unworthy of one

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