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.

References

Catalan

Verb

humiliant

  1. gerund 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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