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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meek \meek\, meeken \meek"en\ -'n, v. t.
to make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. obs.
--chaucer.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meek \meek\ m=ek, a. compar. meeker m=ek"~er;
superl. meekest. oe. mek, meoc; akin to icel. mj=ukr
mild, soft, sw. mjuk, dan. myg, d. muik, goth. mukam=odei
gentleness.
1. mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient
under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful;
forbearing; submissive.
1913 webster
now the man moses was very meek. --num. xii. 3.
1913 webster
2. evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by
mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. "her
meek prayer." --chaucer.
1913 webster
syn: gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming;
humble. see gentle.
1913 webster meek
see also:
meeker meekest gentle
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
meek
adj 1: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or
even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
syn: mild, modest
2: very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- langston
hughes syn: tame
3: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek
conformity"- orville prescott; "she looked meek but had
the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
syn: compliant, spiritless
see also:
mild modest tame compliant spiritless
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 moby thesaurus words for "meek":
abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting,
amenable, bland, broken, chastened, compliant, deferential, docile,
domesticated, dovelike, forbearing, gentle, housebroken, humble,
humble-minded, humble-spirited, humblehearted, lamblike, lenient,
long-suffering, lowly, manageable, meek-minded, meek-spirited,
meekhearted, mild, modest, obedient, pacific, passive, patient,
peaceable, poor in spirit, quiet, reconciled, repressed, resigned,
retiring, shy, spiritless, subdued, submissive, suppressed, tame,
tamed, timid, tolerant, tractable, unambitious, unaspiring,
unassuming, unboastful, uncomplaining, unimposing, unobtrusive,
unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending,
unpretentious, unresisting, weak, yielding
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