Another word for humble
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Adjective
Lacking high station or birth
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Verb
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Another word for humble
Modifier
Meek
Lowly
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Verb
Synonym Study
- Debase implies a decline in value, quality, or character a debased mind
- Abase suggests a loss, often merely temporary and self-imposed, of dignity and respect he abased himself before his employer
- Degrade literally means to lower in grade or rank, but it commonly implies a lowering or corrupting of moral character and self-respect
- To humiliate is to humble or shame another painfully and in public humiliated by their laughter
- To humble is to lower the pride or increase the humility of oneself or another, and, unqualified, suggests that such lowering is deserved humbled by the frightening experience
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