Found 3 items, similar to demeaning.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: demean merendahkan diri
English → English (WordNet) Definition: demeaning demeaning adj : causing awareness of your shortcomings; “golf is a humbling game” [syn: humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Demeaning Demean \De*mean"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se d['e]mener to struggle; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.] 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. [1913 Webster] [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster] They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. --Shak. [1913 Webster] They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] 3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster] Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean. [1913 Webster]