Synonyms for humbling
hum·bling

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1. demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifyingadjective

   causing awareness of your shortcomings

   "golf is a humbling game"

   Synonyms:
   mortifying, embarrassing, demeaning, humiliating

   Antonyms:
   dignified

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1. List of paraphrases for "humbling":

   humble, humiliating

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1. Chris Davis:

   It means a lot, i don't really focus a whole lot on personal goals. Obviously a lot of great players have been with this organization. It's a good feeling, a humbling feeling but this season is not over.

2. Allison Mack:

   Working for Jness is grounding and satisfying and humbling and, and... wonderful, wonderful.

3. Ahmed Zayat:

   Horse racing is a very humbling sport.

4. Andy Swanger:

   It's crazy, it's been like nonstop just getting messages ... It’s kind of overwhelming and humbling.

5. Cory Booker:

   Life gives you these incredible gifts at times disguised as failures or setbacks or knockdowns, these humbling moments that ultimately end up being turning points for you to greater opportunity beyond that which you imagined, and this was yet another football gift to me, to be able to play at high level, Division I competitive football, to sit with a guy who would go on to be... a playoff coach, and have a moment that you think is a devastating end, and it turns out to be an extraordinary, unimaginable beginning.