humiliate

Other forms of humiliate

past tense

humiliated·

present participle

humiliating·

third person

humiliates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about humiliate

What does humiliate mean?

humiliate means "cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of".

How many syllables are in humiliate?

humiliate has 4 syllables: hu-mil-i-ate. The stress falls on "mil". In IPA it is /hjuˈmɪliˌeɪt/.

What is another word for humiliate?

Close synonyms include mortify, chagrin, humble, abase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humiliate a common word?

humiliate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with humiliate?

95 words rhyme with humiliate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.