| Main Entry: | humbleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, lowliness, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-efface |
| Main Entry: | humbleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
abashed, affable, ashamed, bowed down, brow, condescending, crestfallen, dashed, down in the mouth, down on one's knees, down on one's marrow, flabbergasted, hontous, humble, humble, humbled, humbled in the dust, lowly, meek, modest, out of countenance, resigned, servile, shorn of one's glory, sober, unoffended, verecund
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| Main Entry: | modesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endurance, passivity |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, acquiescence, compliance, conformity, deference, docility, forbearing, fortitude, humbleness, humility, longanimity, lowliness, meekness, modesty, nonresistance, patience, patientness, resignedness, submission, submissiveness, sufferance |
Antonyms: |
impatience, intolerance, resistance |
| Main Entry: | submission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
Synonyms: |
acquiescence, appeasement, assent, backing down, bowing, capitulation, cringing, defeatism, deference, docility, giving in, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, obedience, passivism, passivity, pliabilty, prostration, recreancy, resignation, servility, subjection, submissiveness, submitting, surrender, tractability, unassertiveness, yielding |
Antonyms: |
fight, resistance |
| Main Entry: | demureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
coyness, humbleness, humility, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, shyness |
| Main Entry: | lowliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | plainness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
discreetness, economicalness, humbleness, simpleness, simplicity, unassumingness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness |
| Main Entry: | self-effacement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | simpleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
discreetness, economicalness, humbleness, plainness, simplicity, unassumingness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness |