Found 4 items, similar to Humble.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: humble rendah hati
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: humble legowo, sederhana
English → English (WordNet) Definition: humble humble adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; “a humble cottage”; “a lowly parish priest”; “a modest man of the people”; “small beginnings” [syn: low, lowly, modest, small] 2: 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 [ant: proud] 3: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: menial, lowly] 4: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); “baseborn wretches with dirty faces”; “of humble (or lowly) birth” [syn: base, baseborn, lowly] humble v 1: cause to be unpretentious; “This experience will humble him” 2: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; “He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss” [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, abase]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Humble Humble \Hum"ble\, a. [Compar. Humbler; superl. Humblest.] [F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.] 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. [1913 Webster] THy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. --Jas. iv. 6. [1913 Webster] She should be humble who would please. --Prior. [1913 Webster] Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. --Washington. [1913 Webster] Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva). To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Humble \Hum"ble\, a. Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling.] 1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. [1913 Webster] Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6. Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade. [1913 Webster]