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humble
adjective as in meek, unassuming
Strongest matches
courteous, gentle, modest, ordinary, polite, quiet, respectful, self-effacing, sheepish, shy, simple, soft-spoken, tentative, timid, unpretentious
Weak matches
apprehensive, backward, bashful, biddable, deferential, demure, diffident, docile, fearful, hesitant, lowly, manageable, mild, obsequious, reverential, self-conscious, servile, standoffish, submissive, subservient, supplicatory, timorous, tractable, unambitious, unobtrusive, unostentatious
adjective as in poor, inferior
Strongest matches
modest, obscure, ordinary, simple, unassuming, unpretentious
Weak matches
beggarly, common, commonplace, contemptible, humdrum, ignoble, inglorious, insignificant, little, low-born, low-ranking, lowly, meager, measly, menial, miserable, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, puny, scrubby, seemly, servile, severe, shabby, small, sordid, trivial, uncouth, underprivileged, undistinguished, unimportant, unrefined, vulgar, wretched
verb as in shame, put down
Example Sentences
"Stand-up takes a lot of work and before the Fringe and my tour, there were so many pubs and awful gigs where I did a 20-minute set to zero laughs. It's certainly humbling."
Labour, so long the victor of so many a south Wales political contest, humbled, pummelled, crushed - attracting just 11% of voters.
The Minnesota Vikings were the victims, unable to move the ball Thursday night against a unit that looked shaky and unsure of itself in a humbling loss to Indianapolis the previous Sunday.
Kyei, who was recruited by the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in his former role as the governor of the Bank of England, said topping the list was "incredibly humbling".
Underpinning all their work is a humble nature.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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