meaning of humble
1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
2. Thinking lowly of ones self; claiming little for ones self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking ones self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.
3. Hornless. See Hummel.
4. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
5. 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.
6. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the
">boss"
Related Words
humble | humble plant | humblebee | humbled | humblehead | humbleness | humbler | humbles | humblesse |
