Usually means: Causing extreme embarrassment or shame.
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  1. mortifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. mortifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mortifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mortifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mortifying, mortifying: Wordnik
  6. mortifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mortifying: Wiktionary
  8. Mortifying, mortifying: Dictionary.com
  9. mortifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Mortifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. mortifying: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. mortifying: Rhymezone
  13. Mortifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. mortifying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. mortifying: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mortifying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mortifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mortifying: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortifying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mortifying: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
▸ noun:  mortification; abstinence

Similar:
embarrassing, humiliating, humbling, demeaning, undignified, unpleasant, cringeworthy, cringy, shameful, cringeful, more...

Opposite:
exalting, uplifting, gratifying, pleasing, satisfying

Phrases:
beat up cut very damaged mortifying, mortifying pitiful lewd, more morally mortifying, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, such, continual, extreme, daily, impressive



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Similar:
embarrassing, humiliating, humbling, demeaning, undignified, unpleasant, cringeworthy, cringy, shameful, cringeful, more...

Opposite:
exalting, uplifting, gratifying, pleasing, satisfying

Phrases:
beat up cut very damaged mortifying, mortifying pitiful lewd, more morally mortifying, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, such, continual, extreme, daily, impressive



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