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English Synonyms and Antonyms
meekness
Synonyms:
bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, humility, lowliness, modesty, submissivenessAntonyms:
assurance, boldness, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sauciness
Princeton's WordNet
meekness, submissionnoun
the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
Synonyms:
entry, submission, subduedness, compliancemeekness, subduednessnoun
a disposition to be patient and long suffering
Synonyms:
dimness, submission, subduedness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
meeknessnoun
Synonyms:
humbleness, humility, lowliness, lowness, demureness, condescension, self-abasement, gentleness, modesty, submission, submissiveness, mildness
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1000 | entry | |
#2165 | compliance | |
#3430 | submission | |
#22457 | humility | |
#33716 | modesty | |
#87768 | meekness | |
#172856 | dimness | |
#174555 | diffidence | |
#202472 | submissiveness | |
#208725 | lowliness | |
#281008 | bashfulness | |
#307452 | coyness |
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Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty
The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
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