Synonyms for degrading
- adjective
Most common
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.
Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience.
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An officer is degraded by being reduced to the ranks, disgraced by cowardice; vile practises degrade; drunkenness is a degrading vice.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- shameful The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
- demeaning She was wearing something demeaning.
- disparaging She made many disparaging comments on Twitter.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| degrading | rising | |
| shameful | rising | |
| demeaning | rising | |
| disparaging | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- shameful2
- 9 letters
- demeaning3
- 11 letters
- disparaging4
- 12 letters
- dishonorable5
- 13 letters
- dishonourable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (shameful2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- abaissant