Word Meanings - MEEK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to Icel. mj mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D. muik, Goth. mukam 1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. Num.

Additional info about word: MEEK

akin to Icel. mj mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D. muik, Goth. mukam 1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. Num. xii. 3. 2. Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. "Her meek prayer." Chaucer. Syn. -- Gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming; humble. See Gentle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEEK)

• Gentle
• Courteous
• polite
• highbred
• mild
• bland
• tame
• docile
• amiable
• meek
• soft
• placid
• tender
• Humble
• Low
• lowly
• obscure
• modest
• unassuming
• unpretending
• submissive
• Lowly
• Mean
• low
• common
• humble
• Mild
• Moderate
• lenient
• calm
• gentle
• genial
• tempered
• Tame
• Domesticated
• reclaimed
• tamed
• subjugated
• broken
• spiritless
• tedious
• dull
• flat

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MEEK)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover
• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to MEEK)

• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• TAMARIC
  A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 .
• TAMPING
  1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. 2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• TAMABILITY
  The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• TAMBOUR
  A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. 2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame;
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• DICTAMNUS
  A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella , with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• PENTAMERAN
  One of the Pentamera.
• DICTAMEN
  A dictation or dictate. Falkland.
• METAMORPHOSE
  To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
• SCITAMINEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants , mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.