humble

About 7.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

   He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.

2. adjective Having a low position or a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
3. noun People with a low position or a low opinion of themselves; those who are not proud, arrogant, or assuming.
4. noun An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
5. verb To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
6. verb To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
7. verb To hum.

   humbling and bumbling

8. noun Alternative form of hummel.

   humble cattle

Similar words

modest unskilled meek mortify inferior lowly humiliated small lowborn baseborn

Often followed by

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Word family

humbled humbleness humblenesses humbler humblers humbles humblest humbling humblingly humbly