meek
Adjective Satellite
- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- "meek and self-effacing"
- very docile; ; - Langston Hughes
- "meek as a mouse"
- evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; ; - Orville Prescott
- "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"
- "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"
Adj
- Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
- Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
Verb
- To tame; to break (a horse)
Adjective
- Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.
Examples
- Though a meek player, her consistent small scores gradually added up to a win.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, unknown origin, likely related to Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan and possibly a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”).
Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Proto-Slavic *mękъkъ (“soft”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, let loose”).
Synonyms
mild, modest, spiritless, tame
Scrabble Score: 10
meek: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmeek: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meek: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary