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| 1. | [ adjective ] low or inferior in station or quality | |
| Synonyms: | small lowly modest low | |
| Examples: | "a humble cottage" "a lowly parish priest" "a modest man of the people" "small beginnings" |
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| Related terms: | inferior | |
| 2. | [ verb ] cause to be unpretentious | |
| Examples: | "This experience will humble him" |
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| Related terms: | change efface | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful | |
| Examples: | "a humble apology" "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski |
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| Related terms: | proud meek broken modest humility | |
| 4. | [ verb ] cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | |
| Synonyms: | humiliate abase chagrin mortify | |
| Examples: | "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" |
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| Related terms: | hurt degrade crush humiliation chagrin humiliation humiliation | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | |
| Synonyms: | menial lowly | |
| Related terms: | unskilled | |
| 6. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 5779 | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | |
| Synonyms: | base lowly baseborn | |
| Examples: | "baseborn wretches with dirty faces" "of humble (or lowly) birth" |
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| Related terms: | lowborn | |
| Similar spelling: |
humbled humblebee humbly humboldt humbling Hamblet Hamblen |
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