'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]