Found 4 items, similar to humble.
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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.
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THy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley.
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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.
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God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --Jas. iv. 6.
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She should be humble who would please. --Prior.
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Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --Washington.
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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.
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Humble
\Hum"ble\, a.
Hornless. See
Hummel. [Scot.]
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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.
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Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
plagues
Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak.
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The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
--Macaulay.
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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.
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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.
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