1. Causing awareness of your shortcomings
   - humbling, humiliating, mortifying

1. Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
   - take down, degrade, disgrace, put down

See also: demeaningly, undignified

Type of: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify

Encyclopedia: Demeaning

• declaration
• declaration of estimated tax
• Declaration of Independence
• declarative
• declarative mood
• declarative sentence
• declaratory
• declaratory sentence
• declare
• declare oneself
• declared
• declarer
• declass
• declassification
• declassified
• declassify
• declaw
• declension
• declensional
• declinable
• declination
• decline
• decline in quality
• decliner
• declinometer