"humble" Definition

Definitions for the word "humble" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. superl.
Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Hornless. See Hummel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. adj.
1 having or showing low self-esteem. 2 of low social or political rank. 3 modest in size, pretensions, etc. v. (-ling) 1 make humble; abase. 2 lower the rank or status of. eat humble pie apologize humbly; accept humiliation. humbleness n. Humbly adv. [latin humilis: related to *humus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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