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What (who) is humble - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Humble (disambiguation); HUMBLE
humble
(humbler, humblest, humbles, humbling, humbled)
1.
A humble person is not proud and does not believe that they are better than other people.
He gave a great performance, but he was very humble...
? proud
ADJ
• humbly
'I'm a lucky man, undeservedly lucky,' he said humbly.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
People with low social status are sometimes described as humble.
Spyros Latsis started his career as a humble fisherman in the Aegean...
= lowly
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
A humble place or thing is ordinary and not special in any way.
There are restaurants, both humble and expensive, that specialize in them...
ADJ
4.
People use humble in a phrase such as in my humble opinion as a polite way of emphasizing what they think, even though they do not feel humble about it.
It is, in my humble opinion, perhaps the best steak restaurant in Great Britain.
= modest
ADJ [politeness]
• humbly
So may I humbly suggest we all do something next time.
ADV: ADV before v
5.
If you eat humble pie, you speak or behave in a way which tells people that you admit you were wrong about something.
Anson was forced to eat humble pie and publicly apologise to her.
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
If you humble someone who is more important or powerful than you, you defeat them easily.
Honda won fame in the 1980s as the little car company that humbled the industry giants...
VERB: V n
7.
If something or someone humbles you, they make you realize that you are not as important or good as you thought you were.
Ted's words humbled me...
VERB: V n
• humbled
I came away very humbled and recognizing that I, for one, am not well-informed.
ADJ
• humbling
Giving up an addiction is a humbling experience.
ADJ
Humble
·adj Hornless. ·see Hummel.
II. Humble ·superl Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
III. Humble ·vt 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.
IV. Humble ·vt To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to Lower; to Abase; to Humilate.
V. Humble ·superl 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.
humble
I. a.
1.
Meek, modest, unassuming, unpretending, unobtrusive, lowly, submissive, free from pride, free from haughtiness, without arrogance.
2.
Low, small, poor, unpretending.
II. v. a.
1.
Humiliate, shame, mortify, degrade, crush, break, subdue, abash, make ashamed, bring down, put down, take down, put out of countenance.
2.
Make humble, make lowly, render meek or modest or unpretending, free from pride.
Wikipedia
Humble
Examples of use of humble
1. Jesus‘ humble birth in antiquity signified the humble origins of African peoples in modernity.
2. Again, a humble voice of heroism at the beginning, and again a humble voice of cowardice further along.
3. The officer added: "He was very humble, never complained.
4. Considering his humble beginnings he is arrogant beyond belief!
5. "He is a deeply spiritual man but humble and reticent.