Benevolent vs. Humble — What's the Difference?

Characterized by or given to doing good

Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.

Suggestive of doing good; agreeable

Showing deferential or submissive respect

Relating to a charitable organization that operates without making a profit.

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly

Having a disposition to do good.

To cause to feel humble

Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.

To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.

Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Doing or producing good

(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

Intending or showing kindness;

To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

Having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others;

To hum.

Generous in providing aid to others

(transitive) hummel.

Generous in assistance to the poor;

An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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.

Hornless. See Hummel.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

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.

Cause to be unpretentious;

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

Low or inferior in station or quality;

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);