humiliation

Other forms of humiliation

plural

humiliations·

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 humiliation

What does humiliation mean?

humiliation means "state of disgrace or loss of self-respect". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in humiliation?

humiliation has 5 syllables: hu-mil-i-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /hjuˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for humiliation?

Close synonyms include chagrin, mortification, mortification, abasement. 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 humiliation a common word?

humiliation 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 humiliation?

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