Humble
adjective
- 1.
- (Having or showing a consciousness of one's defects, unpretentious) ដែលរាបសា, ដ៏តូចតាច, ដ៏ខ្សត់ខ្សោយ, ដែលឧនថយ
Example: In a humble voice, My humble birth; a home home.humble scholar ដែលដាក់ខ្លួន, humble origins ដែលខ្សត់ខ្សោយ
Example: My humble apologies.
verb — past tense: humbled ; past participle: humbled ; present participle: humbling ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to lower in condition or rank. to ring low. to make meek) humble the enemy ផ្ចាញ់, សុភាព, humble oneself ដាក់ខ្លួន, បន្ទាប (ខ្លួន)
Example: Humble one's enemies.
ENGLISH MEANING
adjective
- 1.
- Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
- 2.
- 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.
verb — past tense: humbled ; past participle: humbled ; present participle: humbling ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 1.
- compliant, deferential, lowly, meek, mild, modest, ordinary, passive, plain, quiet, simple, submissive, unassuming, unpretentious
- 2.
- abase, abash, break, chasten, crush, debase, degrade, demean, humiliate, mortify, shame, subdue
- 1.
- arrogant, boastful, haughty, proud, vain
- 2.
- elevate, exalt, honor, praise
- 1.
- Hornless