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
- 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
- abase
- abash
- bemean
- break
- bring down
- cast down
- chagrin
- chasten
- confound
- confuse
- crush
- cut to the quick
- debase
- deflate
- degrade
- demean
- demote
- deny
- discomfit
- discredit
- disgrace
- embarrass
- hide
- humiliate
- lower
- make eat dirt
- make one feel small
- mortify
- overcome
- pop one's balloon
- pull down
- put away
- put one away
- put to shame
- reduce
- silence
- sink
- snub
- squash
- squelch
- strike dumb
- subdue
- take down
- take down a peg
- upset
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