Definition of humble
- superl. - Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or
magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
- 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.
- a. - Hornless. See Hummel.
- v. t. - To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
- v. t. - 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.