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.