Antonyms for humbling

Grammar : Verb

Spell : huhm-buhl, uhm-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌm bəl, ˈʌm-

Definition of humbling

Origin : mid-13c., from Old French humble, earlier humele, from Latin humilis "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground," from humus "earth." Senses of "not self-asserting" and "of low birth or rank" were both in Middle English Related: Humbly; humbleness.
Don't be so humble; you're not that great. [Golda Meir]
To eat humble pie (1830) is from umble pie (1640s), pie made from umbles "edible inner parts of an animal" (especially deer), considered a low-class food. The similar sense of similar-sounding words (the "h" of humble was not pronounced then) converged in the pun. Umbles, meanwhile, is Middle English numbles "offal" (with loss of n- through assimilation into preceding article).

verb shame, put down

Example sentences :

This was putting the matter in a new, and, for me, an humbling light.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

This completed my humbling; for no man had ever disdained me thus before.
Extract from : « Sir Ludar » by Talbot Baines Reed

The position in which you find yourselves should be humbling.
Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

This is how you treat me for humbling myself, when it is you that ought to ask forgiveness.
Extract from : « White Lies » by Charles Reade

I owe you that admission, humbling to the pride that is left in me!
Extract from : « The Dop Doctor » by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

We had confined his body, but there was no humbling of his spirit.
Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 » by Alexander Leighton

When all this was soaked and frozen he was truly a humbling sight!
Extract from : « Fast in the Ice » by R.M. Ballantyne

But she was not one to tolerate painful and humbling ideas long.
Extract from : « The Billow and the Rock » by Harriet Martineau

It was a radiation of genius, humbling every mediocre mortal it touched.
Extract from : « Tarrano the Conqueror » by Raymond King Cummings

And has not a husband the same opportunities there for humbling a wife?
Extract from : « The Beaux-Stratagem » by George Farquhar

Synonyms for humbling

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