What is the meaning of humble?

verb

  • Cause to be unpretentious.
    • usage: "This experience will humble him"
  • Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
    • usage: "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

adjective

  • Low or inferior in station or quality.
    • usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
  • Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful. "a humble apology"; "essentially humble... And self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions- B. K. Malinowski
  • Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work.
  • Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense))
    • usage: "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly. birth"
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