Humility

Synonyms for humility
noun humbleness, modesty

shyness
demureness
mortification
diffidence
servility
obedience
lowliness
bashfulness

resignation
passiveness
timidity
meekness
submissiveness
unpretentiousness
abasement
reserve

fawning
subjection
self-abasement
sheepishness
nonresistance
obsequiousness
self-abnegation
subservience

unobtrusiveness
docility
timorousness
inferiority complex
lack of pride

Antonyms for humility

boldness
arrogance
egoism

pretentiousness
self-importance
confidence

assertiveness
pride

Concept Thesaurus for word humility
4. Extrinsic Affections
Synonyms – noun

humility
lowliness
submission
modesty
confusion
let down

humbleness
lowlihood
resignation.
verecundity
sense of shame,sense of disgrace
set down.

meekness
abasement
condescension
blush
humiliation

lowness
self-abasement
affability (courtesy)
suffusion
mortification

Synonyms – verbs

be humble
humble oneself
carry coals
lower one’s tone
sober down
take shame to oneself
feel disgrace
blush up to the eves
hang one’s head
humble
take down
abash
teach one his distance
cast into the shade[more]
confuse
crush

deign
demean oneself
submit
lower one’s note
hide one’s face
not have a word to say for oneself
be conscious of disgrace
redden
look foolish
humiliate
tread down
abase
take down a peg
stare out of countenance
ashame
send away with a flea in one’s ear.

vouchsafe
stoop
submit with a good grace (brook)
sing small
hide one’s diminished head
feel shame
drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
change color
feel small.
let down
frown down
make one sing small
take down a peg lower
put out of countenance
mortify
get a setdown.

condescend
stoopto conquer
yield the palm.
draw in one’s horns
not dare to show one’s face
be conscious of shame
blush for
color up
render humble
set down
snub
strike dumb
throw into the shade
put to the blush
disgrace

Synonyms – adjectives

humble
humble minded
servile
humbled
ashamed
down on one’s knees
browbeaten
shorn of one’s glory (disrepute) [more]

lowly
sober-minded
[more]
bowed down
dashed
down on one’s marrowbones
chapfallen

meek
unoffended
condescending
resigned
out of countenance
down on one’s uppers
crestfallen

modest
submissive
affable (courteous)
abashed
down in the mouth
humbled in the dust
dumfoundered. flabbergasted.

Synonyms – phrases
I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Horace].
Antonyms

pride

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