Humble

Quick meaning: Humble is an adjective meaning Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Meaning

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

More Meanings

1. Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
2. (Baltimore, slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
3. (ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
4. (transitive, often reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
5. (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To hum.
6. (Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) Alternative form of hummel.
7. (transitive) Alternative form of hummel.

Example Sentences

He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.

She ſhould be humble, who would pleaſe; And ſhe muſt ſuffer, who can love.

But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble.

Roominess and unroominess in a human dwelling, even of the humblest kind, are important matters in their bearing upon man's character.

Word Forms

• humbler
• humblest
• humbles
• humbling
• humbled

Synonyms for humble

Depending on context, synonyms include abased, demure, diffident, humble-hearted, low, lowly.

Antonyms for humble

Common opposites include arrogant, immodest, snobby, presumptuous, smug, airy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include modest, unskilled, meek, mortify, inferior, lowly.

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