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Meaning of "humiliative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUMILIATIVE

humiliative  [hjuːˈmɪljətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUMILIATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Humiliative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HUMILIATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of humiliative in the English dictionary

The definition of humiliative in the dictionary is causing humiliation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUMILIATIVE


administrative
ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪv
alternative
ɔːlˈtɜːnətɪv
collaborative
kəˈlæbərətɪv
comparative
kəmˈpærətɪv
conciliative
kənˈsɪljətɪv
conservative
kənˈsɜːvətɪv
cooperative
kəʊˈɒpərətɪv
cumulative
ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv
decorative
ˈdɛkərətɪv
derivative
dɪˈrɪvətɪv
informative
ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv
initiative
ɪˈnɪʃɪətɪv
legislative
ˈlɛdʒɪslətɪv
narrative
ˈnærətɪv
negative
ˈnɛɡətɪv
operative
ˈɒpərətɪv
quantitative
ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv
relative
ˈrɛlətɪv
renunciative
rɪˈnʌnsjətɪv
representative
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUMILIATIVE

humidness
humidor
humification
humified
humifies
humify
humiliant
humiliate
humiliated
humiliating
humiliatingly
humiliation
humiliator
humiliatory
humilities
humility
humint
Humism
humite
humiture

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUMILIATIVE

active
affirmative
authoritative
commemorative
creative
figurative
illustrative
imaginative
imperative
in the negative
indicative
innovative
integrative
investigative
lucrative
native
normative
provocative
sales representative
speculative
tentative

Synonyms and antonyms of humiliative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «humiliative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUMILIATIVE

Find out the translation of humiliative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of humiliative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «humiliative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

humiliative
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

humiliative
570 millions of speakers

English

humiliative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

humiliative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

humiliative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Humiliative
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

humiliative
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

humiliative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

humiliative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menghina
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

humiliative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

humiliative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

humiliative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyenyamah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

humiliative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

humiliative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपमानकारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşağılayıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

humiliative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

humiliative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Humiliative
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

humiliative
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

humiliative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

humiliative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

humiliative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

humiliative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of humiliative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUMILIATIVE»

The term «humiliative» is used very little and occupies the 192.885 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUMILIATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «humiliative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «humiliative» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about humiliative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMILIATIVE»

Discover the use of humiliative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to humiliative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Power Sharing : Language, Rank, Gender and Social Space in ...
Common Speech Humiliative Speech moahngeP ei tungoal moahng my head ngihlei ei tungoal ngihl my voice (4) Body part expressed as humiliative 01 Woman: ma i patohwante i pahn wiada if I TranVerb[HUM].only I will do. up if I had only ...
Elizabeth Keating Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, 1998
2
Rehg: Ponapean Reference Grammar
HUMILIATIVE POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS 7.4.1 Humiliative possessive constructions are employed under circumstances paralleling the use of the verbpato. Thus, when speaking of something one owns or possesses in the presence of ...
Kenneth L. Rehg, Damian G. Sohl, 1981
3
Linguistic Anthropology
An example is given in (10) below, where the daughter of a chief first refers to her own action by means of the humiliative form patoh and then later uses the exaltive form ket in referring to her father's movement. Given the polysemy of these ...
Alessandro Duranti, 1997
4
Historical Pragmatics
(iii) The change of ukagau 'peer, wait (for an opportunity)' to '[humiliative] ask, enquire'. On the other hand, intersubjectification accompanies the development of addressee honorifics from earlier referent honorifics. Examples of such ...
Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen, 2010
5
Possession and Ownership
In contrast, the humiliative register (used to address socially inferior people) has just one classifier, ah tungoal. The forms and meanings are illustrated in Table 1.3 (based on Keating 1997: 252-3, 255, 258). In the humiliative register there is  ...
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, 2013
6
Historical (im)politeness
He identifies six specific forms of civil discourse, namely, "the avoidance of contradiction; accent; euphemisms; compliments; forms of address; and finally the humiliative mode of speech to social superiors" (Burke, 2000: 39).3 Burke ...
Jonathan Culpeper, Dániel Z. Kádár, 2010
7
Speech Acts in the History of English
Addresses to the patron build on compliments and humiliative speech acts in classical styles, as denned by ars dictaminis as appropriate for addressing people of high rank. In the early material, the rhetorical eloquence of compliments follows ...
Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen, 2008
8
Grammaticalization in the system of Japanese predicate ...
This section has shown that humiliative honorifics in Modern Japanese prototypically lower the subject referent relative to a nonsubject referent or the addressee and prototypically associate the subject referent with speaker social space.
Richard Byrd Dasher, Stanford University. Dept. of Linguistics, 1995
9
Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
Humiliative forms, on the other hand, are produced when the subject is the speaker or a related person/object; the intent is to honor the listener (or some third person) by indicating speaker's own relatively lower status. (25) a. Watakusi wa ...
Susan U. Philips, Susan Steele, Christine Tanz, 1987
10
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
Attested from the Middle Ages, with increasing standardization from the 16th century. The Ugric branch of Finno-Ugric includes Hungarian and two languages of the Urals called (after the river) 'Ob-Ugric'. humiliative (Form etc.) that speakers  ...
P.H. Matthews, 2007

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