humility

Roget category 879

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#879. Humility

noun

humility, humbleness — meekness, lowness — lowliness, lowlihood^† — abasement, self-abasement — submission etc. 725 — resignation.
condescension — affability etc. (courtesy) 894.
modesty etc. 881 — verecundity^†, blush, suffusion, confusion — sense of shame, sense of disgrace — humiliation, mortification — let down, set down.

verb

be humble etc. adj. — deign, vouchsafe, condescend — humble oneself, demean oneself — stoop, stoop to conquer — carry coals — submit etc. 725 — submit with a good grace etc. (brook) 826 — yield the palm.
lower one's tone, lower one's note — sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down — hide one's face, hide one's diminished head — not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself — feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace — drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
blush for, blush up to the eves — redden, change color — color up — hang one's head, look foolish, feel small.
render humble — humble, humiliate — let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down — snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb — teach one his distance — put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower — throw into the shade, cast into the shade etc. 874 — stare out of countenance, put out of countenance — put to the blush — confuse, ashame^†, mortify, disgrace, crush — send away with a flea in one's ear.
get a setdown^†.

adjective

humble, lowly, meek — modest etc. 881 — humble minded, sober-minded — unoffended^† — submissive etc. 725 — servile, etc. 886.
condescending — affable etc. (courteous) 891.
humbled etc. v. — bowed down, resigned — abashed, ashamed, dashed — out of countenance — down in the mouth — down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers — humbled in the dust, browbeaten — chapfallen^†, crestfallen — dumfoundered^†.
flabbergasted.
shorn of one's glory etc. (disrepute) 874.

adverb

with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee — on all fours, on one's feet.
under correction, with due deference.

phrase

I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant — my service to you — da locum melioribus [Lat.] [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Lat.] [Horace].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

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