HUMBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humbled mean? 

• HUMBLED (adjective)
  The adjective HUMBLED has 1 sense:

1. subdued or brought low in condition or status

  Familiarity information: HUMBLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subdued or brought low in condition or status

Synonyms:

broken; crushed; humbled; humiliated; low

Context example:

his broken spirit

Similar:

humble (marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful)

 Context examples 

His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By you, I was properly humbled.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The high, bulging shelves of heavy tomes humbled him and at the same time stimulated him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She felt humbled to the dust.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You may believe me, when I heerd her voice, as I had heerd at home so playful—and see her humbled, as it might be in the dust our Saviour wrote in with his blessed hand—I felt a wownd go to my 'art, in the midst of all its thankfulness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

From you, from my home, I shall never again have the smallest incitement to move; and if I do mix in other society, it will be only to shew that my spirit is humbled, my heart amended, and that I can practise the civilities, the lesser duties of life, with gentleness and forbearance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into a sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing yet avoided.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Dejected and humbled, she had even some thoughts of not going with the others to the theatre that night; but it must be confessed that they were not of long continuance, for she soon recollected, in the first place, that she was without any excuse for staying at home; and, in the second, that it was a play she wanted very much to see.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)