Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Humility

Nouns
  • humility, humbleness
  • meekness, lowness
  • lowliness, lowlihood
  • abasement, self-abasement
  • submission etc. Submission
  • resignation. condescension
  • affability etc. (courtesy) Courtesy. modesty etc. Modesty
  • verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion
  • sense of shame, sense of disgrace
  • humiliation, mortification
  • let down, set down.
Verbs
  • be humble etc. adj.
  • deign, vouchsafe, condescend
  • humble oneself, demean oneself
  • stoop, stoop to conquer
  • carry coals
  • submit etc. Submission
  • submit with a good grace etc. (brook) [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
  • yield the palm. lower one's tone, lower one's note
  • sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down
  • hide one's face, hide one's diminished head
  • not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself
  • feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace
  • drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. blush for, blush up to the eves
  • redden, change color
  • color up
  • hang one's head, look foolish, feel small. render humble
  • humble, humiliate
  • let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down
  • snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb
  • teach one his distance
  • put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower
  • throw into the shade, cast into the shade etc. Disrepute
  • stare out of countenance, put out of countenance
  • put to the blush
  • confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush
  • send away with a flea in one's ear. get a setdown.
Adjectives
  • humble, lowly, meek
  • modest etc. Modesty
  • humble minded, sober-minded
  • unoffended
  • submissive etc. Submission
  • servile, c. Servility. condescending
  • affable etc. (courteous) Enemy. humbled etc. v.
  • bowed down, resigned
  • abashed, ashamed, dashed
  • out of countenance
  • down in the mouth
  • down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers
  • humbled in the dust, browbeaten
  • chapfallen, crestfallen
  • dumfoundered. flabbergasted. shorn of one's glory etc. (disrepute) Disrepute.
Adverbs
  • with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee
  • on all fours, on one's feet. under correction, with due deference.
Phrases
  • I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant
  • my service to you