Word Meaning

humbles definition and meaning

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.
n. pl. Entrails of a deer.

Crossword clues for humbles

- Self-effacing