Humble

Adjective for Humble

 * 1) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
 * Thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley.
 * 1) Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; lowly; weak; modest.
 * God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6.
 * She should be humble who would please. -Prior.
 * Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. -Washington.

Verb for Humble

 * 1) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
 * Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak.
 * The genius which humbled six marshals of France. -Macaulay.
 * 1) 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.
 * Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6.

Adverbs for Humble
quietly; unusually; sincerely; modestly; shyly; timidly; obsequiously; submissively; abjectly; astoundingly; timorously; unassumingly; guiltily; demurely; devoutly; reverently; solemnly; gravely; consecratedly; penitently; contritely; sadly; unexpectedly; unnecessarily; extremely; abjectly; painfully; utterly; profoundly; unmeritedly; shamefully; sadistically; vindictively.

Synonyms for Humble

 * (verb) abase, lower, depress, humiliate, mortify, disgrace, degrade
 * (adjective) lowly, meek, submissive, unassuming, docile, mild, unpretentious, unpretending, simple, polite, courteous, homely, unadorned, bashful, modest, retiring, unselfish, diffident, unobtrusive, restrained, reserved, shy, coy, timid, shrinking, yielding, hesitating, unostentatious, forbearing, enduring, plain, poor, unimportant.

Antonyms for Humble

 * (adjective) proud, haughty, boastful, ostentatious,  arrogant, masterful, tyrannical, overbearing, sneering, domineering, sarcastic, egotistical, self-important, censorious, presumptuous, conceited, pretentious, vain, insolent, imperious, blustering, assuming, rich, powerful, fancy, self-assertive, arbitrary, dogmatic.

Derived terms

 * humble plant
 * eat humble pie
 * humbler (agent noun)

Related terms

 * humiliate
 * humiliation
 * humility

Thesaurus
abase, abash, abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, altruistic, amenable, apologetic, base, baseborn, beat down, below the salt, bend, break, break down, bring down, bring low, bring to terms, broken, bump, bust, cast down, chagrin, chasten, chastened, cockney, committed, common, commonplace, compliant, conquer, consecrated, contrite, crush, debase, dedicated, deferential, deflate, degrade, demean, demeaning, demote, deplume, devoted, disadvantaged, discomfit, disgrace, disgrade, disinterested, displume, domesticated, dovelike, downgrade, embarrass, fell, flatten, gentle, homely, housebroken, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humbled, humblest, humiliate, ignoble, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, junior, lamblike, least, less, lesser, let down, lose face, low, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowest, lowliest, lowly, master, mean, meek, melted, mild, minor, modest, mortify, nonclerical, obedient, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, overmaster, override, overwhelm, pacific, passive, peaceable, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, plain, plebeian, poor, prostrate, pull down, put down, put out, put to shame, quell, quiet, reconciled, reduce, repentant, reserved, resigned, respectful, ride down, rude, sacrificing, second rank, second string, secondary, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, servile, shabby-genteel, shame, sheepish, simple, sink, small, smash, softened, strip of rank, sub, subaltern, subdue, subdued, subject, subjugate, submissive, subordinate, subservient, suppress, tame, tamed, teachable, third rank, third string, third-estate, touched, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, tyrannize, unacquisitive, unambitious, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, uncomplaining, underprivileged, undistinguished, ungenteel, unimportant, unimposing, unman, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpossessive, unprepossessing, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, unresisting, unselfish, unsparing of self, unwashed, vanquish, vulgar

Etymology
< umble: <  humilis: (compare Greek χαμαλός:) < humus:, humi:. See homage, and confer chameleon, humiliate.

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Etymology
From humilis: (compare Greek χαμαλός:) < humus:, humi:.

Adjective

 * 1) humble

Related terms

 * àmha
 * à mon humble avis
 * humblement
 * humiliation
 * humilier
 * humilité

Etymology
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