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Humble can be an adjective or a verb.
humble used as an adjective:
- Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
"Thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley." - Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; lowly; weak; modest.
"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
humble used as a verb:
- To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
"Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak." - To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used reflexively.
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is humble?
- Adjective usage: Thy humble nest built on the ground. -Cowley.
- Adjective usage: God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6.
- Adjective usage: She should be humble who would please. -Prior.
- Adjective usage: Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. -Washington.
- Verb usage: Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes. -Shak.
- Verb usage: The genius which humbled six marshals of France. -Macaulay.
- Verb usage: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of humble are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of humble, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
