humble

1. superl. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. a. Hornless. See Hummel. Source: opted

4. v. t. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

6. adj. low or inferior in station or quality Source: wordnet

7. adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful Source: wordnet

8. adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) Source: wordnet

9. adj. of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense) Source: wordnet

10. v. cause to be unpretentious Source: wordnet

11. v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of Source: wordnet

12. 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. 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. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6. She should be humble who would please. Prior. Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. Washington. Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (M. sensitiva). -- To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray. Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.] 1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay. 2. 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. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6. Syn. -- To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade. Source: webster

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