Sekirov Dictionary

humble

/ˈhʌmbəl/

adjective 2
noun 2
verb 3
forms 9
phrases 2

adjective2

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(of a person) not proud, and not needing others to say how good they are
- She should be humble, who would please; And she must suffer, who can love. — 1722
•
Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
- He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.
- 17th century, Abraham Cowley, The Shortness of Life and Uncertainty of Riches The wise example of the heavenly lark. Thy fellow poet, Cowley, mark, Above the clouds let thy proud music sound, Thy humble nest build on the ground.

noun2

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People with a low position or a low opinion of themselves; those who are not proud, arrogant, or assuming.
- c. 590 AD: Liber Regulae Pastoralis by Pope Gregory I "The humble are to be admonished not to be more submissive than is right".
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(slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
- Years ago, guys on Baltimore's streets would have, by definition, called an arrest for loitering a "humble." — 2005

verb3

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To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
- Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. — 1603
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[with oneself] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
- And you say you've been humbled in love / Cut down in your love / Forced to kneel in the mud next to me — 1979
(no longer used) To hum.

forms

humbled · humbledst · humbling · humbles · humbleth · humbler · more humble · humblest · most humble

Phrases with humble

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