• Meek

    Pronunciation

    • General American IPA/ /mik/Rhymes: -iːk

    Origin

    From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, from Old Norse mjúkr 'soft' (compare Swedish mjuk 'soft', and Danish myg 'supple'), from Proto-Germanic *mūkaz (compare Dutch muik 'soft, overripe', dialectal German mauch 'dry and decayed, rotten', Mauche 'malanders'), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meug, *meuk- 'slick, slippery; to slip' (compare Old English smūgan 'to slide, slip', Welsh mwyth 'soft, weak', Latin emungere 'to blow one's nose', Tocharian A muk 'to let go, give up', Lithuanian mùkti 'to slip away from', Old Church Slavonic mŭčati 'to chase', Ancient Greek myssesthai 'to blow the nose', Sanskrit muñcati 'he releases, lets loose').

    Full definition of meek

    Adjective

    meek

    1. Humble, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
      • 1848: , Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
      • "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5)
    2. Submissive, dispirited.

    Synonyms

    Verb

    1. (US) (of horses) To tame; to break.
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