Adjective: humbling húm-bu-ling
- Causing awareness of your shortcomings
"golf is a humbling game";
- demeaning, humiliating, mortifying
- Cause to be unpretentious
"This experience will humble him"
- Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
"He humbled his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss";
- humiliate, mortify, chagrin, abase
See also: undignified
Type of: alter, bruise, change, hurt, injure, modify, offend, spite, wound
Encyclopedia: Humble, TX