humble

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈhʌmbəl/|/ˈʌmbəl/    美 /ˈhʌmbəl/|/ˈʌmbəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. People with a low position or a low opinion of themselves; those who are not proud, arrogant, or assuming.
    — But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble.
  2. Alternative form of hummel. Northern-England,Scotland,also,alt-of,alternative
    — humble cattle
  3. An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. slang
    — You're on a corner in my district, it ain't gonna be about no humble, it ain't gonna be about no loitering charge, nothing like that. There gonna be some biblical shit happening to you on the way to that motherfucking jail wagon.
动词 v.
  1. To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of. ambitransitive
    — Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes.
  2. To hum. intransitive,obsolete
    — humbling and bumbling
  3. Alternative form of hummel. alt-of,alternative,transitive
  4. To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. often,reflexive,transitive
    — And you say you've been humbled in love / Cut down in your love / Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
形容词 adj.
  1. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
    — He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.
  2. Having a low position or a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
    — She ſhould be humble, who would pleaſe; And ſhe muſt ſuffer, who can love.

词形变化

humbler comparative more humble comparative humblest superlative most humble superlative humbles plural humbles present,singular,third-person humbling participle,present humbled participle,past humbled past humbles present,singular,third-person humbling participle,present humbled participle,past humbled past humbles plural humbles present,singular,third-person humbling participle,present humbled participle,past humbled past

词汇关系

近义词
abased demure diffident humble humble-hearted low lowly meek mild modest poor resigned self-effacing unpretentious verecund
反义词
arrogant immodest
下位词
overmeek overmodest
衍生词
eat humble pie enhumble humblebrag humblehead humble-hearted humble-heartedness humble pie humble plant humblesome humblesse humblify humblish in my humble opinion unhumble unhumbleness humbleness humblehood humbler humbly
相关词
humbleness humiliate humiliation humility ashamed dejected embarrassed reserved servile submissive cautious moderate shy

词源

词源 1
From Middle English humble, from Old French humble, umble, humle, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek χαμηλός (khamēlós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”). See homage, and compare chameleon, humiliate. Displaced native Old English ēaþmōd.
词源 2
From Middle English humblen (“to humble”), from the adjective above.
词源 3
From Middle English *humblen, *humbelen (suggested by humblynge (“a humming, a faint rumbling”)), frequentative of Middle English hummen (“to hum”), equivalent to hum + -le.
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