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Synonyms for humility
hyuˈmɪl ɪ ti; often yu-hu·mil·i·ty

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Wiktionary3.1 / 7 votes

  1. humilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    egolessness, humilitude, modesty

    Antonyms:
    pride

  2. humilitynoun

    The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.

    Synonyms:
    egolessness, humilitude, modesty

    Antonyms:
    pride

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.8 / 4 votes

  1. humility

    Synonyms:
    carelessness, contentment, indifference, satisfaction

    Antonyms:
    ambition, aspiration, competition, emulation, opposition, rivalry

Princeton's WordNet4.8 / 6 votes

  1. humility, humblenessnoun

    a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride

    "not everyone regards humility as a virtue"

    Synonyms:
    unimportance, lowliness, obscureness, humbleness

    Antonyms:
    pride, conceit, pridefulness, vanity, conceitedness

  2. humility, humblenessnoun

    a humble feeling

    "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"

    Synonyms:
    unimportance, lowliness, obscureness, humbleness

    Antonyms:
    pride, pridefulness, conceit, conceitedness, vanity

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Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. humilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, lowliness, modesty, diffidence, self-abasement

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. humilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    meekness, lowliness, self-abasement, diffidence, modesty

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "humility":

    modesty

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#3729satisfaction
#22457humility
#25345indifference
#33716modesty
#41894contentment
#57236carelessness
#174090humbleness
#208725lowliness
#272811unimportance

How to use humility in a sentence?

  1. Justin Amash:

    Unlike you, Mark has shown humility in his role and a desire to be a better man than he was the day before.

  2. Denny Heck:

    His behavior amplifies and accelerates certain trends, he has no capacity for a sense of shame or even an ounce of humility to acknowledge when his actions or words may have hurt others.

  3. Mickey Mehta:

    However hard you try one can never be a great Hindu, Muslim, Christian, or whatever. One can only be a great unbranded soul once the soul becomes refined, undefined. It simply dissolves its greatness into humility personified, ego neutralized, and gets eternally MickeyMized.

  4. Mike Pickett:

    Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined.

  5. William Ellery Channing:

    True love is the parent of humility.


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