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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: humility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: humbleness, modesty

Synonyms:

abasement, bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, docility, fawning, inferiority complex, lack of pride, lowliness, meekness, mortification, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, passiveness, reserve, resignation, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, shyness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timidity, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness

Antonyms:

arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance
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: unimportance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: humbleness

Synonyms:

humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, obscureness

Antonyms:

conceit, importance
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
Related Words
Main Entry: humbleness
Part of Speech: noun
Related
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
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Unimportance.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience

Synonyms:

-nouns
unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality., triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness; poverty; smallness; vanity (uselessness); matter of indifference; no object., nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel., toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, rickshaw, knicknack, whim-wham, trifle, "trifles light as air"; yankee notions [U.S.]., trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; "leather or prunello"; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse (inutility); scum (dirt)., joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge (unmeaning); fiddlestick, fiddlestick end; pack of nonsense, mere farce., straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent [U.S.]., minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the seal, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill., nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus; flash in the pan (impotence); much ado about nothing (overestimation).
-verbs
be unimportant; not matter; go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not matter a straw, make light of (underestimate); catch at straws (overestimate).
-adjectives
unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance [more]; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent., subordinate (inferior); mediocre (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable., trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water., poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, two penny half penny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.]., not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain (useless).
-adverbs
slightly; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably., for aught one cares.
-phrases
magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; it matters not, it does not signify; it is of no consequence, it is of no importance; elephantus non capit murem; tempete dans

Antonyms:

importance
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Humility.
Category: 4. Extrinsic Affections

Synonyms:

-nouns
humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood; abasement, self-abasement; submission; resignation., condescension; affability (courtesy)., modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.
-verbs
be humble; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoopto conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace (brook); 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; take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade [more]; 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; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended; submissive; servile, [more]., condescending; affable (courteous)., humbled; 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 (disrepute) [more].
-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; da locum melioribus [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Horace].

Antonyms:

pride
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