HUMILIATED

embarrassed, humiliated, mortified

(adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; “too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street”; “humiliated that his wife had to go out to work”; “felt mortified by the comparison with her sister”

broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low

(adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status; “brought low”; “a broken man”; “his broken spirit”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

humiliated

simple past tense and past participle of humiliate

Adjective

humiliated

deprived of dignity or self-respect

Synonyms

• degraded

Source: Wiktionary


HUMILIATE

Hu*mil"i*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Humiliating.] Etym: [L. humiliatus, p.p. of humiliare. See Humble.]

Definition: To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify. We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. M. Arnold.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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