Humble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
  • adj. Showing deferential or submissive respect: a humble apology.
  • adj. Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly: a humble cottage.
  • v. To curtail or destroy the pride of; humiliate.
  • v. To cause to be meek or modest in spirit.
  • v. To give a lower condition or station to; abase. See Synonyms at degrade.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
  • adj. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; lowly; weak; modest.
  • v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
  • v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used reflexively.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
  • adj. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.
  • adj. Hornless. See hummel.
  • v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
  • v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hum.
  • To break; make sore.
  • To break off the ears of (barley) with a flail; separate from the awns.
  • To break off the horns of.
  • Broken; bruised; sore.
  • Having no horns, as a cow.
  • Pertaining to a humble cow.
  • Lowly in kind, state, condition, amount, etc.; of little worth or moment; unimportant; low; common: as, a humble cottage; a man of humble origin; a humble follower; my humble means.
  • Lowly in manner or guise; modest; unpretending; submissive: as, a humble apology.
  • Lowly in feeling; lacking self-esteem; having a sense of insignificance, unworthiness, dependence, or sinfulness; meek; penitent.
  • To make lower; bring down; bow down.
  • To make lower in state or condition; reduce in power, possessions, esteem, etc.; abase: as, to humble one's foes; to humble the pride of a rival.
  • To make humble or lowly in feeling; bring down the pride or vanity of; make meek and submissive; humiliate: often used reflexively.
  • Synonyms Debase, Degrade, etc. See abase.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
  • adj. low or inferior in station or quality
  • adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
  • adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
  • v. cause to be unpretentious
  • adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
  • Equivalent
    inferior    unskilled    lowborn    broken    meek    crushed    mild    low    humbled    modest   
    Verb Form
    humbled    humbles    humbling   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    hummel   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unpretending    unassuming    lowly    waek    modest    depress    degrade    lower    abase    disgrace   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Trumbull    bumble    crumble    fumble    grumble    jumble    mumble    rumble    stumble    tumble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    modest    honest    simple    pious    respectful    young