Meek

Definition: Meek

Meek

Adjective

1. Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing".

2. Very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes.

3. Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "meek" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Meek

Excitability

Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Humility

Adjective: humble, lowly, meek; modest; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended; submissive; servile,.

Crosswords: Meek

Manx (blink, twinkle, wink), Maya (to embrace).

Are the meek inheriting the earth (Giustiziere della terra perduta, Il; writing credit: David Worth)

Only the meek get pinched (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes)

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Books

• And the Meek (reference)

• And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (reference)

• Jesus the Meek King (reference)

• Meek Ain't Weak: Nonviolent Power and People of Color (reference)

• Meek Americans (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Twilight Zone Christmas: Night of the Meek (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Inherit the Meek (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The SHACKLETON in Meek Channel, next to Argentine Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Seals on the ice in Meek Channel - note flipper marks in the snow. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Pilot Robert Meek Prepares for Patrol Flight from Wrangell Beach. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Medical exam - infant through age twelve. / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Richard B. Meek..

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The Professor pocketed his thermometer in a moment, clasped his hands, and put his head on one side with a meek smile

Jesus Meek they called me after that

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Expressions using "meek": as meek as a lamb ♦ meek and mild. Additional references.

Beginning with "meek": meek-eyed, meek-looking, meek-spirited.

Ending with "meek": non-meek.

Albanian

i urtë (acquiescent, canny, compliant, docile, ductile, mild, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, silent, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, tame, wise), i duruar (patient, placable, tolerant, uncomplaining), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), ‏وديع (facile, gentle, humble, placid, quiet, tame), ‏حليم (patient), ‏خنوع (meekness, servile, servility, submission, subservience). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смирен (humble, resigned), кротък (dovelike, mild, mousey, placid, quiet), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), покорен (governable, humble, obedient, submissive, unresisting). (various references)

Chinese 

温顺 (Docile, meekness, tractability, tractable). (various references)

Czech

mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled), pokorný (humble, lowly, submissive, tame), poddajný (amenable, compliant, docile, floppy, lithe, pliable, pliant, submissive, supple, tame, yielding). (various references)

Farsi 

فروتن (Courteous, Daft, Humble, Low, Lowly, Modest, Slight, Submissive, Unassuming, Unpretentious, Venal), مهربان (Affable, Amiable, Benign, Blithe, Charitable, Clement, Comkpliant, Gentle, Good, Gracious, Humane, Kind, Kindly, Mellow, Merciful, Mild, Open, Soft, Tenderminded), ملایم (Benign, Bland, Breezy, Clement, Downy, Easy, Equable, Gentle, Kindly, Lenient, Mild, Moderate, Sedate, Smooth, Soft, Suave), نجیب (Bland, Decent, Genteel, Gentle, Nice, Noble), حلیم (Submissive), خونسرد (Cool, Dispassionate, Impassive, Imperturbable, Unconcerned, Uninterested), افتاده (Low, Lowly, Modest, Unassuming), رام (Docile, Domestic, Inward, Manageable, Obedient, Tame), بیروح (Arid, Exanimate, Inert, Pedestrian, Tame, Vapid), باحوصله , بردبار (Patient, Tolerant). (various references)

Finnish

säyseä (compliant, gentle, quiet, well-behaved), sävyisä (docile, even-tempered, manageable, mild, tractable), nöyrä (humble, lowly, obedient, submissive), lauhkea (mild, temperate). (various references)

French

humble, doux. (various references)

German

sanftmütig (docile, gentle, meekly), mild (balmy, benevolent, benign, bland, clement, clemently, gentle, lenient, light, mellow, mild, mildly, moderate, placid, softly). (various references)

Greek 

μαλακόσ (compliant, crumby, malleable, mellow, mild, quaggy, smooth, soft, softy, squashy, subdued, unctuous, waxen), πράοσ (benign, biddable, bland, gentle, mild, placid, quiet), πράος (gentle, mild), πειθήνιος (docile, obedient), ήμεροσ (tractable), άτολμος (diffident). (various references)

Hebrew 

ותר� י (complaisant, indulgent, lenient, yielding), שפל (base, degeneration, ebb, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, low tide, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scabby, scamp, shabby, sordid, vile), ע� יו (humble, modest), צ� וע (demure, homely, humble, lowly, modest, neat, prude, unassuming). (various references)

Hungarian

szerény (austere, exiguous, have no side, humble, lowly, low-pitched, mite, modest, sedate, to help sy in one's small way, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive), szende (ingenue), szelíd (benign, biddable, bland, gentle, lenient, light, milky, placid, quiet, subdued, sweet, sweet-tempered, tame). (various references)

Indonesian

anut (attentive, pliant). (various references)

Italian

mite (bland, genial, gentle, lenient, mild, moderate, reasonable, temperate), mansueto (docile, gentle, lamblike, mild, tame), docile (amenable, biddable, docile, governable, lamblike, soft, tame, tractable, workable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

神妙 (faithful, quiet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すなお (docile, obedient, unaffected), し�"みょう (faithful, quiet), やわらか (gentle, limp, soft, subdued, tender), じゅうじゅ�" (docile, gentle, obedient, submissive), じゅ�"りょう (gentle, genuine, good and obedient, innocent, net weight, pure, purity, simple and kind). (various references)

Korean 

순한. (various references)

Pig Latin

eekmay.(various references)

Portuguese

manso (gentle, lamblike, mild, pet, tame), suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douce, downy, dulcet, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambent, lamblike, lenient, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, piano, placable, pleasant, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, sweet, tender), pacífico (pacific, peaceable, peaceful, peaceloving, peace-loving, stilly), dócil (amenable, biddable, docile, facile, gentle, kind, manageable, obedient, submissive, tractable, yielding), brando (bland, dainty, delicate, easy, facile, fine, flaccid, gentle, lenient, light, lithe, mellow, mild, moderate, placable, placid, reasonable, refined, slow, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, tender). (various references)

Romanian

umil (humble, humbly, low, lowly, mean, modest, poor, small, submissive), supus (acquiescent, compliant, duteous, dutiful, dutifully, humble, meekly, obedient, obediential, passive, subject, submissive, submissively, supple, tame, yielding), sfios (backward, bashful, coy, demure, faint-hearted, maiden, maidenlike, maidenly, milky, mousy, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), docil (amenable, docile, manageable, obedient, teachable, tractable, yielding), blajin (benign, easy-tempered, gentle, good natured, good tempered, mild, mildly, placable, sweet), blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), împãciuitor (conciliatory, pacificator, pacificatory, peace maker, propitiatory). (various references)

Russian 

смиренный (humble), кроткий (dove-like, gentle, lamblike, mild-mannered, placable), мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squashy, squidgy, yielding). (various references)

Scottish

macanta (gentle, mild), caomh (benign, gentle, tender). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smeran (humble, sober minded, submissive), pokoran (amenable, conformable, humble, malleable, manageable, obedient, servile, submissive, subservient, tractable), krotak (tame), blag (benign, bland, clement, genial, gentle, lenient, light, mellow, melting, mild, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous). (various references)

Spanish

manso (bellwether, gentle, mattress, mild, tame). (various references)

Swedish

undergiven (abject, passive, resigned, submissive), tålmodig (enduring, forbearing, long-suffering, patient), ödmjuk (humble, lowly). (various references)

Thai

นอบน้อม. (various references)

Turkish

mütevazi (demiss, hat in hand, humble, modest, pudent, small, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), yumuşak başlı (amenable, blancmange, compliant, docile, dovelike, flexible, flexile, good tempered, kind, obedient, pliable, pliant, soft, toward), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), silik (insignificant, retiring, weak), ezik (bruise, crushed, sheepish, squashed), alçakgönüllü (decent, demiss, frugal, hat in hand, humble, low, lowly, meek-spirited, modest, pudent, simple, simple minded, simple-hearted, submissive, unassuming, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references)

Ukrainian

лагідний (accommodating, appeasable, benign, dovelike, gentle, lamblike, livable, pacable, placable), покірний (acquiesced, acquiescent, benign, duteous, lamblike, obedient, obediential, obeisant, prideless, resigned, submissive, tame). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhu mì (milky, modest), ngoan ngoãn (conformable, docile, submissive), hiền l� nh (gentle), dễ bảo (docile, obedient, obsequious, tame, tractable). (various references)

Welsh

ufyll (humble), llednais (delicate, modest), llariaidd (gentle, mild), addfwyn (gentle, mild). (various references)

demissus, mites, mitibus, mitis, mitissimus, mitius, modestus, verecundus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "meek": meeker, meekest, meekly, meekness, meeknesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "meek": overmeek, smeek. (additional references)

Words containing "meek": smeeked, smeeking, smeeks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Meek" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eeek, eeeuk, Emec, Emek, emk, keek, Macek, maek, maok, Matejko, mayaki, Mdesk, Meac, Meak, meark, mebe, mec, meck, mee, meee, Meeee, meeki, meekl, meeks, meel, meem, meen, Meep, meeq, meerk, mees, meew, meey, meez, mefem, meio, mek, meke, meku, Melk, Memec, menk, meou, Merk, mesk, Mesko, meye, miak, mieu, mitek, moik, msee, Muteka, myc, myk, Neek, neuk, nhek, smeek, veek, zeek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eke, eme.

-2 letters: em, me.

+1 letter: smeek.

+2 letters: hakeem, kermes, meeker, meekly, meikle, remake, smeeks.

+3 letters: besmoke, deskmen, gemlike, hakeems, kamseen, kermess, kimchee, klezmer, meekest, meerkat, midweek, miskeep, pikemen, remaker, remakes, smeeked, smerked, sokemen.

+4 letters: bakemeat, beamlike, bedmaker, bemocked, besmoked, besmokes, brakemen, demarked, diemaker, domelike, embanked, embarked, embosked, fumelike, gamelike, hemplike, homelike, icemaker, kamseens, kermeses, kermesse, kermises, khamseen, kimchees, klezmers, leukemia, leukemic, mackerel, makeable, makebate, makeover, mameluke, marketed, marketer, mazelike, meekness, meerkats, midweeks, milkweed, miskeeps, monkeyed, namesake, overmeek, reembark, remakers, remarked, remarker, remarket, seamlike, smeeking, stemlike, teamaker, telemark, yarmelke, yokemate.