humble

humble is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
2. superlative. 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.
3. adjective. Hornless. See Hummel.
4. transitive verb. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
5. transitive verb. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
6. verb. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

   "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

   Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify

7. verb. cause to be unpretentious

   "This experience will humble him"

8. adjective. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

   "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"

   "of humble (or lowly) birth"

   Synonyms: base, baseborn, lowly

9. adjective. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful- B.K.Malinowski

   "a humble apology"

   "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"

10. adjective. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

    Synonyms: lowly, menial

11. adjective. low or inferior in station or quality

    "a humble cottage"

    "a lowly parish priest"

    Synonyms: low, lowly, modest, small

Synonyms

abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify, base, baseborn, lowly, menial, low, modest, small

Common word forms

humbled, humbler, humbles, humblest, humbling, humbleness

Words from these letters

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