'Humble' definitions:
Definition of 'humble'
From: WordNet
adjective
Low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small]
adjective
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 [ant: proud]
adjective
adjective
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly]
verb
Cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
verb
Definition of 'Humble'
From: GCIDE
- Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling.]
- 1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. [1913 Webster]
- Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.
- Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Humble'
From: GCIDE
- Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler (h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]st).] [F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.]
- 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty. [1913 Webster]
- Thy humble nest built on the ground. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; modest; as, a humble cottage. Used to describe objects. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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; weak; modest. Used to describe people. [1913 Webster]
- God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. --Jas. iv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- She should be humble who would please. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. --Washington. [1913 Webster]
- Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
- To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. --Halliwell. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'humble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Humble, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Humble, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000) :
14579
Housing Units (2000) :
5908
Land area (2000) :
9.867487 sq. miles (25.556674 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.013151 sq. miles (0.034062 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
9.880638 sq. miles (25.590736 sq. km)
FIPS code :
35348
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
29.994920 N, 95.264873 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
77338 77339 77345 77346 77396
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.