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Adjective humble has 4 senses
- humble, low, lowly, modest, small - low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)
- humble - 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
Antonyms: proud, arrogant, chesty, self-important, beaming, swelled, vainglorious, bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising, dignified, self-respecting, self-respectful, disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, glorious, illustrious, redoubtable, respected, gratifying, house-proud, overproud, pleased, proud of, purse-proud, shabby-genteel, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain
- humble, menial, lowly - used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
- base, baseborn, humble, lowly - of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
Antonym: noble (indirect, via lowborn)
Verb humble has 2 senses
- humble - cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
--2 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot humble Sue
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