'Demeaning' definitions:
Definition of 'demeaning'
From: WordNet
adjective
Causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
Definition of 'Demeaning'
From: GCIDE
- Demean \De*mean"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se d['e]mener to struggle; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.]
- 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. [1913 Webster]
- [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster]
- They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster]
- Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'demeaning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beneath one,
- cheap,
- common,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- deplorable,
- disadvantaged,
- disgraceful,
- gutter,
- humble,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- minor,
- modest,
- opprobrious,
- ordinary,
- outrageous,
- pitiful,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servile,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- sorry,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- third rank,
- third string,
- too bad,
- unbecoming,
- underprivileged,
- unworthy of one,
- vulgar