Humble

['hʌmbl]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) cause to be unpretentious; 'This experience will humble him'.

(adj.) 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 .

(adj.) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) .

(adj.) low or inferior in station or quality; 'a humble cottage'; 'a lowly parish priest'; 'a modest man of the people'; 'small beginnings' .

錄入:丽贝卡--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

(superl.) 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.

(a.) Hornless. See Hummel.

(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

(v. t.) 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.

塞西尔手打

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Meek, modest, unassuming, unpretending, unobtrusive, lowly, submissive, not proud, not haughty, not arrogant.[2]. Low, not high, not great.

v. a. Humiliate, shame, mortify, degrade, crush, break, subdue, snub, abash, make ashamed, bring down, put down, take down, put out of countenance.

安娜校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Low, lowly, obscure, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretending, submissive

ANT:High, lofty, eminent, proud, boastful, arrogant, assuming, pretentious

艾比校對

解釋/意思:

adj. having no horns.

adj. low: meek: modest.—v.t. to bring down to the ground: to lower: to abase: to mortify: to degrade.—adj. Hum′ble-mouthed humble in speech.—n. Hum′bleness—(Spens.) Hum′bless.—adj. Hum′bling making humble.—n. a humiliation.—advs. Hum′blingly in a humiliating manner; Hum′bly.

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