Humble vs. Mild — What's the Difference?

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

Gentle or kind in disposition, manners, or behavior.

Showing deferential or submissive respect

Moderate in type, degree, effect, or force

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

Not extreme

To cause to feel humble

Warm and full of sunshine; pleasant

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

Not severe or acute

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Easily molded, shaped, or worked; malleable

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

Texas & Virginia To diminish or decrease. Used of the wind or a storm. See Note at fair1.

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

Gentle and not easily angered.

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

(of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict.

To hum.

Not overly felt or seriously intended.

(transitive) hummel.

(of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.

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

(of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.

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

(of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.

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.

(of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor.

Hornless. See Hummel.

(British) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale

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

Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; - the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; - applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

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.

Moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme;

Cause to be unpretentious;

Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness;

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

Mild and pleasant;

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);