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humble 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ˈhəmbəl/,
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humblest, superlative; humbler, comparative;
  1. Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance
    • - he was humble about his stature as one of rock history's most influential guitarists
  2. (of an action or thought) Offered with or affected by such an estimate of one's own importance
    • - my humble apologies
  3. Of low social, administrative, or political rank
    • - she came from a humble, unprivileged background
  4. (of a thing) Of modest pretensions or dimensions
    • - he built the business empire from humble beginnings
Verb
  1. Lower (someone) in dignity or importance
    • - I knew he had humbled himself to ask for my help
  2. Decisively defeat (another team or competitor, typically one that was previously thought to be superior)
    • - he was humbled by his political opponents
  1. cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
  2. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
  3. humiliate: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
  4. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
  5. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
  6. base: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
  7. (humbled) broken: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
  8. (humbleness) the state of being humble and unimportant
  9. (humbling) demeaning: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
  10. (humbly) in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head"
  11. (Humbly) Humility (adjectival form: humble) is the quality of being modest, reverential, even politely submissive, and never being arrogant, contemptuous, rude or even self-abasing. ...
  12. (The Humbling) The Humbling is a novel by Philip Roth published in the fall of 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is Roth's 30th book and concerns "...an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a 'counterplot of unusual erotic desire.'"
  13. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate; To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used reflexively; Near the ground; not high or lofty; ...
  14. (humbled) Feeling the positive effects of humility
  15. (humbles) Entrails of a deer
  16. (humbling) An event which causes humbleness; a set-down; Of higher rank, status, quality, strength, etc.; inducing a feeling of inferiority
  17. (Humbles) Innards of a deer or other large animal. Tripe. An occasional spelling of UMBLES (itself a later form of NUMBLES, OF. nombles), the inwards of a deer or other beast.  (c1590 GREENE Fr. Bacon xiv. 106, Lacy. What haue you fit for breakefast? Margret. ...
  18. (humbles) are innards -- usually referring to deer, but Ellis concentrates on 'hog's humbles'.
  19. (humbly) To lower in pride; to be modest
  20. (humbly) eadmolice; eaðmodlice
  21. Nicola (2005), Culinary Pleasures: Cookbooks and the Transformation of British Food, London: Faber.
  22. Meekness, not to think more highly of yourself than you should.
  23. (adjective) if you are humble you don’t believe you are important, or you have a low opinion of yourself > humbly (adverb).
  24. (adjective) -- simple and not too proud ch. 19
  25. Craig's first friend at the hospital, takes the most medication.