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Humble vs. Humbly — What's the Difference?

Humble vs. Humbly — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Humble and Humbly

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Humble

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

Humbly

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

Humble

Showing deferential or submissive respect
A humble apology.

Humbly

Showing deferential or submissive respect
A humble apology.

Humble

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly
A humble cottage.
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Humbly

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly
A humble cottage.

Humble

To cause to feel humble
"He was humbled by the lack of consolation in Kornblum's expression" (Michael Chabon).

Humbly

To cause to feel humble
"He was humbled by the lack of consolation in Kornblum's expression" (Michael Chabon).

Humble

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

Humbly

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

Humble

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.

Humbly

In a humble manner.
I humbly accept this award.

Humble

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

Humbly

With humility; lowly.

Humble

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

Humbly

In a humble manner;
He humbly lowered his head

Humble

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

Humbly

In a miserly manner;
They lived meanly and without ostentation

Humble

To hum.
Humbling and bumbling

Humble

(transitive) hummel.

Humble

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

Humble

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

Humble

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.
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
She should be humble who would please.
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.

Humble

Hornless. See Hummel.

Humble

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plaguesHave humbled to all strokes.
The genius which humbled six marshals of France.

Humble

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.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.

Humble

Cause to be unpretentious;
This experience will humble him

Humble

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss

Humble

Low or inferior in station or quality;
A humble cottage
A lowly parish priest
A modest man of the people
Small beginnings

Humble

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;
A humble apology
Essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions

Humble

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Humble

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
Baseborn wretches with dirty faces
Of humble (or lowly) birth

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