HUMBLE

base, baseborn, humble, lowly

(adjective) of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense); “baseborn wretches with dirty faces”; “of humble (or lowly) birth”

humble

(adjective) 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

humble, menial, lowly

(adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

humble, low, lowly, modest, small

(adjective) low or inferior in station or quality; “a humble cottage”; “a lowly parish priest”; “a modest man of the people”; “small beginnings”

humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase

(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; “He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss”

humble

(verb) cause to be unpretentious; “This experience will humble him”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Adjective

humble (comparative humbler or more humble, superlative humblest or most humble)

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Synonyms: unassuming, modest

Near the ground.

Synonyms

• See humble

Antonyms

• arrogant

• snobby

• presumptuous

• smug

Verb

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

(transitive, often, reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

Synonyms

• abase, lower, depress, humiliate, mortify, disgrace, degrade

Noun

humble (plural humbles)

(Baltimore, slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Etymology 2

Noun

humble (plural humbles)

(Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) Alternative form of hummel.

Verb

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

(transitive) Alternative form of hummel.

Proper noun

Humble (plural Humbles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Humble is the 7264^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4588 individuals. Humble is most common among White (89.71%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

Hum"ble, a. [Compar. Humbler; superl. Humblest.] Etym: [F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]

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.

Hum"ble, a.

Definition: Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.]

Hum"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling.]

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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

HUMBLE

Etymology 1

Adjective

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Verb

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Noun

Etymology 2

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