Word Meanings - HUMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 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

Additional info about word: HUMBLE

humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 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. 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 , a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa . -- 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUMBLE)

• Abase
• Degrade
• disgrace
• bring low
• reduce
• humble
• demean
• stoop
• humiliate
• depress
• lower
• sink
• dishonor
• Abash
• Confound
• confuse
• discompose
• bewilder
• daunt
• cow
• disconcert
• dishearten
• motility
• shame
• Debase
• deprave
• deteriorate
• corrupt
• alloy
• impair
• Ignoble
• Moun
• base
• dishonorable
• plebian
• lowly
• Lower Depress
• decrease
• bate
• abate
• drop
• debase
• diminish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HUMBLE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Increase
• grow
• amplify
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

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• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BRACTLESS
  Destitute of bracts.
• BREATHE
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  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CREBRICOSTATE
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• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• BRASIER; BRAZIER
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• MAKE AND BREAK
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• OVERBROW
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