Pretentious vs. Humble — What's the Difference?

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed

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

Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case

Showing deferential or submissive respect

Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority

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

Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious

To cause to feel humble

Intended to impress others.

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

Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

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

Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction;

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

Intended to attract notice and impress others;

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

Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

To hum.

(transitive) hummel.

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);