humble

(adjective, verb)

adjective

1. low or inferior in station or quality

- a humble cottage

Similar word(s): inferior, low, lowly, small

2. 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

Similar word(s): modest, broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low, meek, mild

3. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Similar word(s): unskilled, lowly, menial

4. of humble beginnings.

- of humble (or lowly) birth

Similar word(s): lowborn, baseborn, lowly

Sentences with humble as an adjective:

- Thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley.

- humble cattle

verb

1. cause to be unpretentious

- This experience will humble him

Definition categories: emotion, alter, change, modify

2. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

Similar word(s): abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify

Definition categories: emotion, bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound

Sentences with humble as a verb:

- 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.

- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. Ch 5: v. 6.