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Humiliating vs Insulting - What's the difference?

humiliating | insulting |

As adjectives the difference between humiliating and insulting

is that humiliating is liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone while insulting is containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.

As verbs the difference between humiliating and insulting

is that humiliating is while insulting is .

As a noun insulting is

the act of giving insult.

humiliating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • insulting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.
    • He received an insulting letter.

    Derived terms

    * insultingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving insult.
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • grievous reproaches, and scornful insultings over him in his affliction

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