Humble

Related Terms:

modest submissive unimpressive respectful self effacing low born in barn chasten crawlingly hillbilly unhumble humble hearted reduce fease sheep's eye go far cap in hand sing small soften someone's cough sely humbleness self effacingly arrogant proud humbled humility unpretentious suppliantly unpretending meek humiliate humblish mean humbly humiliation false modesty setdown lion's provider demiss handtame unhumbled humbles demissive put someone in their place humbling moment in sun prideless nether pretentious unsnobbish hairshirted abase assuming magnificent abject unassuming unhumbly demean servant

Definitions:

Noun

Definition: An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Definition: Alternative form of hummel.

Verb

humble

Definition: cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"

humiliate mortify chagrin humble abase

Definition: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

Definition: To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

Definition: To hum.

Definition: Alternative form of hummel.

Adjective

humble low lowly modest small

Definition: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

humble

Definition: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski

humble menial lowly

Definition: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

base baseborn humble lowly

Definition: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

Definition: Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.