Word Meanings - SELF-ABASING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lowering or humbling one's self.

Related words: (words related to SELF-ABASING)

• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• 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
• HUMBLY
  With humility; lowly. Pope.
• HUMBLER
  One who, or that which, humbles some one.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• HUMBLEHEAD
  Humble condition or estate; humility. Chaucer.
• LOWER-CASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• HUMBLEBEE
  The bumblebee. Shak. (more info) hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. sq.
• LOWERING
  Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
• HUMBLES
  Entrails of a deer. Johnson.
• HUMBLENESS
  The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
• LOWERINGLY
  In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
• HUMBLESSE
  Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. Chaucer. Spenser.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• BALL-FLOWER
  An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.