[syn: meek, spiritless]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Meek \Meek\ (m[=e]k), a. [Compar. Meeker (m[=e]k"[~e]r);
superl. Meekest.] [OE. mek, meoc; akin to Icel. mj[=u]kr
mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D. muik, Goth. mukam[=o]dei
gentleness.]
1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient
under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful;
forbearing; submissive.
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Now the man Moses was very meek. --Num. xii. 3.
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2. Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by
mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. "Her
meek prayer." --Chaucer.
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Syn: Gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming;
humble. See Gentle.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
meek
adj 1: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness
or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
[syn: meek, mild, modest]
2: very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston
Hughes [syn: meek, 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:
meek, spiritless]
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