Exact Match:
- 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
- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
Synonyms:
- abase,
- abash,
- abject,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjusting,
- altruistic,
- amenable,
- apologetic,
- base,
- baseborn,
- beat down,
- below the salt,
- bend,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bring low,
- bring to terms,
- broken,
- bump,
- bust,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- chasten,
- chastened,
- cockney,
- committed,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compliant,
- conquer,
- consecrated,
- contrite,
- crush,
- debase,
- dedicated,
- deferential,
- deflate,
- degrade,
- demean,
- demeaning,
- demote,
- deplume,
- devoted,
- disadvantaged,
- discomfit,
- disgrace,
- disgrade,
- disinterested,
- displume,
- domesticated,
- dovelike,
- downgrade,
- embarrass,
- fell,
- flatten,
- gentle,
- homely,
- housebroken,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humbled,
- humblest,
- humiliate,
- ignoble,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- insignificant,
- junior,
- lamblike,
- least,
- less,
- lesser,
- let down,
- lose face,
- low,
- lowborn,
- lowbred,
- lower,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- master,
- mean,
- meek,
- melted,
- mild,
- minor,
- modest,
- mortify,
- nonclerical,
- obedient,
- obscure,
- obsequious,
- ordinary,
- overmaster,
- override,
- overwhelm,
- pacific,
- passive,
- peaceable,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- plain,
- plebeian,
- poor,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to shame,
- quell,
- quiet,
- reconciled,
- reduce,
- repentant,
- reserved,
- resigned,
- respectful,
- ride down,
- rude,
- sacrificing,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- servile,
- shabby-genteel,
- shame,
- sheepish,
- simple,
- sink,
- small,
- smash,
- softened,
- strip of rank,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subject,
- subjugate,
- submissive,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- suppress,
- tame,
- tamed,
- teachable,
- third rank,
- third string,
- third-estate,
- touched,
- trample down,
- trample underfoot,
- tread underfoot,
- tyrannize,
- unacquisitive,
- unambitious,
- unaspiring,
- unassuming,
- unboastful,
- uncomplaining,
- underprivileged,
- undistinguished,
- ungenteel,
- unimportant,
- unimposing,
- unman,
- unobtrusive,
- unostentatious,
- unpossessive,
- unprepossessing,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unresisting,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- unwashed,
- vanquish,
- vulgar