Humble
['hʌmbl]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Low, lowly, obscure, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretending, submissive
ANT:High, lofty, eminent, proud, boastful, arrogant, assuming, pretentious
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Definition
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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Examples
- As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Humble bees alone visit red clover, as other bees cannot reach the nectar. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a favour. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Oh, don't suppose that I claim attention for My humble words! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was now at my feet, the humble sighing, adoring, suppliant lover again. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire for an hour or more. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The humbled mutineer smelt it, tasted it, and returned to his seat. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- We err, we fall, we are humbled; then we walk more carefully. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her feelings are concentrated in one--pride; and that needs humbling. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It really seems as if he had been playing with you in this way in revenge for my humbling him as I did by standing up against him at first. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- So with the humbler houses in the little street, the inner firelight shining on the panes as the outer twilight darkened. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, he answered, smiling, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and humbler women, is a very good sport for a philosophical frequenter of Vanity Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was the delight of Adrian and myself to wait on Clara, naming her the little queen of the world, ourselves her humblest servitors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The chapel of the Syrians is not handsome; that of the Copts is the humblest of them all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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