different between jealous vs humble

English

Etymology

[1382] From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Doublet of zealous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??l?s/
• Hyphenation: jeal?ous
• Rhymes: -?l?s

Adjective

jealous (comparative jealouser or more jealous, superlative jealousest or most jealous)

1. Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity. [from 13th c.]
2. Protective, zealously guarding, careful in the protection of something one has or appreciates. [from 14th c.]

   For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jehovah, is a jealous God. —Exodus 34:14 (NET)

3. Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise. [from 14th c.]
4. Suspecting, suspicious.

Usage notes

Some usage guides seek to distinguish "jealous" from “envious”, using jealous to mean “protective of one’s own position or possessions” – one “jealously guards what one has” – and envious to mean “desirous of others’ position or possessions” – one “envies what others have”. This distinction is also maintained in the psychological and philosophical literature. However, this distinction is not always reflected in usage, as reflected in the quotations of famous authors (above) using the word jealous in the sense “envious (of the possessions of others)”.

Derived terms

• jealous-like adjective
• jealously adverb
• jealousy noun
• jealousness noun

Related terms

• zeal
• zealot
• zealous

Translations

References

Anagrams

• jalouse

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?h?mb?l/
• (obsolete, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mb?l/
• Rhymes: -?mb?l
• Hyphenation: hum?ble

Etymology 1

From Middle English humble, from Old French humble, umble, humle, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek ??????? (khamalós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”). See homage, and compare chameleon, humiliate. Displaced native Old English ?aþm?d.

The verb is from Middle English humblen (“to humble”).

Adjective

humble (comparative humbler or more humble, superlative humblest or most humble)

1. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
   • 17th century, Abraham Cowley, The Shortness of Life and Uncertainty of Riches

     The wise example of the heavenly lark.
     Thy fellow poet, Cowley, mark,
     Above the clouds let thy proud music sound,
     Thy humble nest build on the ground.

2. Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

   Synonyms: unassuming, modest
3. Near the ground.
   • 1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, Harper Brothers:

     "Humble?" said Charlotte. "'Humble' has two meanings. It means 'not proud' and it means 'near the ground.' That's Wilbur all over. He's not proud and he's near the ground.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:humble

Antonyms

• arrogant
• snobby
• presumptuous
• smug

Derived terms

Related terms

• humbleness
• humiliate
• humiliation
• humility

Translations

Verb

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of
2. (transitive, often reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

Synonyms

• abase, lower, depress, humiliate, mortify, disgrace, degrade

Derived terms

• humblehood
• humbleness
• humbler (agent noun)
• humbly

Translations

Noun

humble (plural humbles)

1. (Baltimore, slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *humblen, *humbelen (suggested by humblynge (“a humming, a faint rumbling”)), frequentative of Middle English hummen (“to hum”), equivalent to hum +? -le.

Verb

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To hum.

Derived terms

• humblebee

Etymology 3

Noun

humble (plural humbles)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) Alternative form of hummel.

Verb

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

1. (transitive) Alternative form of hummel.

Further reading

• humble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• humble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek ??????? (khamalós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /œ?bl/
• Rhymes: -œ?bl
• Homophone: humbles

Adjective

humble (plural humbles)

1. humble

Related terms

• àmha
• à mon humble avis
• humblement
• humiliation
• humilier
• humilité

Further reading

• “humble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Adjective

humble m (oblique and nominative feminine singular humble)

1. Alternative form of umble

Declension