Meek

Adjective

 * 1) Humble, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
 * 2) * 1848: Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
 * Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
 * 1) * "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5)
 * 2) Submissive, despirited, or of broken will.
 * 3) * 1920: Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
 * What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:humble

Verb

 * 1) 🇺🇸  To tame; to break.

Adverbs for Meek
gently; quietly; submissively; modestly; humbly; supplicatingly; serenely; disgustingly; obsequiously; unnecessarily; provok-ingly; stupidly;  miserably;  wretchedly; tragically; passively; tranquilly; patiently; placidly; philosophically; gracefully; sedately; demurely; contentedly.

Thesaurus
abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, amenable, bland, broken, chastened, compliant, deferential, docile, domesticated, dovelike, forbearing, gentle, housebroken, humble, humble-minded, humble-spirited, humblehearted, lamblike, lenient, long-suffering, lowly, manageable, meek-minded, meek-spirited, meekhearted, mild, modest, obedient, pacific, passive, patient, peaceable, poor in spirit, quiet, reconciled, repressed, resigned, retiring, shy, spiritless, subdued, submissive, suppressed, tame, tamed, timid, tolerant, tractable, unambitious, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, uncomplaining, unimposing, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, unresisting, weak, yielding

Etymology
From meek:, meke:, meoc:, from  mjúkr: 'soft' (compare Swedish mjuk: 'soft', and Danish myg: 'supple'), from  (compare Dutch muik: 'soft, overripe', German dialect mauch: 'dry and decayed, rotten', Mauche: 'malanders'), from  'slick, slippery; to slip' (compare Old English smugan: 'to slide, slip', Welsh mwyth: 'soft, weak', Latin emungere: 'to blow one's nose', Tocharian A muk: 'to let go, give up', Lithuanian mukti: 'to slip away from', Old Church Slavonic mŭčati 'to chase', Ancient Greek myssesthai 'to blow the nose', Sanskrit muñcati 'he releases, lets loose').

Pronunciation

 * General American IPA/SAMPA /mik/

Adjective

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 * Indonesian: rendah hati
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 * Swedish: ödmjuk


 * German:
 * Hungarian:, beletörődő


 * Spanish: humilde, resignado, sumiso, manso,