English

Alternative forms

• humblehearted

Adjective

humble-hearted ‎(comparative more humble-hearted, superlative most humble-hearted)

1. Meek; humble; unassuming.
   • 1900, William James, What Makes a Life Significant:

     Old hags many of them were, dried and brown and wrinkled, kerchiefed and short-petticoated, with thick wool stockings on their bony shanks, stumping through the glittering thoroughfares, looking neither to the right nor the left, bent on duty, envying nothing, humble-hearted, remote;

   • 2000, Karen Cushman, Matilda Bone, ISBN 0547533233, page 74:

     Or perhaps 'I am overawed by your undistinguished, humble-spirited, humble-minded, humble-hearted, humble-looking humility, which humbly shines . . .'?"

   • 2002, John Quirt, Jackboots in the Heartland, ISBN 1403305595, page 59:

     Too slick for what Phil liked to call Andy's "humble-hearted" style. "We'll make a suit-and-tie man out of you yet," the senator had said once, half in jest.