mortifiant
French, adjective
mortifiant is spelled M-O-R-T-I-F-I-A-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mortifiant is a French adjective meaning “mortifying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of mortifier. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui mortifie, qui humilie l’amour-propre et cause de la confusion”.
What does mortifiant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mortifying
verb
- 1
present participle of mortifier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui mortifie, qui humilie l’amour-propre et cause de la confusion.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mortifiant
- mortifiante feminine
- mortifiants masculine plural
- mortifiantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mortifiant?
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mortifiant in French?
mortifiant appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).