'Humbling' definitions:
Definition of 'humbling'
From: WordNet
adjective
Causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
Definition of 'Humbling'
From: GCIDE
- Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling.]
- 1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. [1913 Webster]
- Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively. [1913 Webster]
- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.
- Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade. [1913 Webster]