DICTOMETER

HUMBLE

(humble, humilde, beskjeden, ydmyk)

1. Synonyms:
   • Humble
   Definitions:
   • cause to be unpretentious
   Examples:
   • This experience will humble him
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Humiliate
   • Mortify
   • Chagrin
   • Humble
   • Abase
   Definitions:
   • cause to feel shame
   • hurt the pride of
   Examples:
   • He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Humble
   • Low
   • Lowly
   • Modest
   • Small
   Definitions:
   • low or inferior in station or quality
   Examples:
   • A humble cottage
   • A lowly parish priest
   • A modest man of the people
   • Small beginnings
   Antonyms:
   • Superior
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Humble
   Definitions:
   • marked by meekness or modesty
   • not arrogant or prideful
   Examples:
   • A humble apology
   • Essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions- B.K.Malinowski
   Antonyms:
   • PROUD
   • arrogant, chesty, self-important
   • beaming
   • big, swelled, vainglorious
   • bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
   • boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising
   • dignified, self-respecting, self-respectful
   • disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
   • conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain
   • house-proud
   • overproud
   • pleased, proud of(predicate)
   • purse-proud
   • shabby-genteel
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Humble
   • Menial
   • Lowly
   Definitions:
   • used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
   Antonyms:
   • Skilled
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Base
   • Baseborn
   • Humble
   • Lowly
   Definitions:
   • of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
   Examples:
   • Baseborn wretches with dirty faces
   • Of humble (or lowly) birth
   Antonyms:
   • Noble