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He found army discipline a humbling experience.
humdrum adj. dull, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, monotonous,
unvaried, unvarying, routine, undiversified, unchanging,
repetitious, uneventful, unexciting, uninteresting, prosaic,
mundane, ordinary, commonplace, common, banal, dry, insipid,
jejune: They saw no way of escaping from their humdrum lives.
humid adj. damp, moist, muggy, clammy, sticky, steamy, soggy, sultry,
wet: The weather has been oppressively hot and humid all week.
humiliate v. See humble, 4.
humiliation
n. disgrace, shame, mortification, dishonour, ignominy,
indignity, discredit, loss of face, obloquy, abasement,
depreciation, detraction, degradation, derogation, belittlement,
disparagement, shaming, embarrassment, humbling: He had to
suffer the humiliation of being drummed out of the corps.
humility n. modesty, meekness, self-effacement, shyness, diffidence,
timidity, timorousness, meekness, bashfulness, mildness,
unpretentiousness, submissiveness, servility, self-abasement,
lowliness: She sees humility as dissatisfaction with oneself on
account of some defect or infirmity.
humorous adj. funny, comical, facetious, laughable, risible, ludicrous,
farcical, side-splitting, hilarious, merry; droll, whimsical,
amusing, witty, waggish, jocular, jocose, playful, pleasant,
Colloq hysterical: The humorous parts of the play sent the
audience into gales of laughter.
humour n. 1 funniness, comedy, wit, facetiousness, ludicrousness,
drollery, jocoseness or jocosity, jocularity, waggishness,
raillery, banter: One writer defined humour as 'the happy
compound of pathos and playfulness', another referred to the
sense of humour as a 'modulating and restraining balance-wheel'.
2 comedy, farce, jokes, jests, witticisms, wit, Slang
wisecracks, gags: Milton was scarcely known as a writer of
humour. 3 mood, frame of mind, temper; spirit(s); disposition,
nature, temperament: She is in a bad humour till after
breakfast.