Mortifying

Synonyms for "mortifying" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

awkward crushing

Adjective(1 words)

demeaning

Strong matches (3)

disconcerting disturbing

Adjective(1 words)

embarrassing

Related words (6)

Adjective(2 words)

humbling humiliating

humiliating provocative shameful unpleasant

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

Synonyms

1 entries

humiliating

derived

1 entries

mortifyingly

form of

1 entries

mortify

related to

4 entries

abstinence embarrassing mortification mortify

similar

4 entries

cringey undignified unpleasant

Translations

2 translations across 2 languages.

German

1 entries

oberpeinlich adj (extremely embarrassing)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

bedoodjent adj (extremely embarrassing)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It was mortifying. They laughed at me.

Source: tatoeba (2103980)

mortifyings of the flesh

Source: wiktionary

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