humble

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
• adjective Showing deferential or submissive respect.
• adjective Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly.
• transitive verb To cause to feel humble.
• transitive verb To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To hum.
• To break; make sore.
• To break off the ears of (barley) with a flail; separate from the awns.
• To break off the horns of.
• Broken; bruised; sore.
• Having no horns, as a cow.
• Pertaining to a humble cow.
• Lowly in kind, state, condition, amount, etc.; of little worth or moment; unimportant; low; common: as, a humble cottage; a man of humble origin; a humble follower; my humble means.
• Lowly in manner or guise; modest; unpretending; submissive: as, a humble apology.
• Lowly in feeling; lacking self-esteem; having a sense of insignificance, unworthiness, dependence, or sinfulness; meek; penitent.
• To make lower; bring down; bow down.
• To make lower in state or condition; reduce in power, possessions, esteem, etc.; abase: as, to humble one's foes; to humble the pride of a rival.
• To make humble or lowly in feeling; bring down the pride or vanity of; make meek and submissive; humiliate: often used reflexively.
• Synonyms Debase, Degrade, etc. See abase.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Scot. Hornless. See hummel.
• adjective Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adjective 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.
• adjective (Bot.) a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (Mimosa sensitiva).
• adjective to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles.
• transitive verb To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
• transitive verb 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
• adjective Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; lowly; weak; modest.
• verb To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• verb 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
• adjective low or inferior in station or quality
• adjective used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
• adjective of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
• verb cause to be unpretentious
• adjective marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful