Dictionary Entry
mortifying
mortifying is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Mortify. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Mortify
- 2adjective
Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
- 3adjective
Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
- 4adjective
Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
- 5adjective
causing awareness of your shortcomings
"golf is a humbling game"
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- 6adjective
causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
"the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"
"it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
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