Thesaurus: humble

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1. superl. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
2. 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.
3. a. Hornless. See Hummel.
4. v. t. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
5. 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.
6. adj. low or inferior in station or quality
7. adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
8. adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
9. adj. of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
10. v. cause to be unpretentious
11. v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of