| Definitions of 'HUMBLE' |
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1. (adj) humble, low, lowly, modest, small
low or inferior in station or quality
"a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
2. (adj) humble
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
3. (adj) humble, menial, lowly
used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
4. (verb) base, baseborn, humble, lowly
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
5. (verb) humble
cause to be unpretentious
"This experience will humble him"
6. (verb) humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
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| Definitions of 'HUMBLE' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (adj) HUMBLE
hornless. See Hummel
2. HUMBLE
near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage
3. HUMBLE
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
4. (verb) HUMBLE
to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate
5. (verb) HUMBLE
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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