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meek

English

Etymology

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (soft; meek), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *m?kaz (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 also Old English sm?gan (to slide, slip), Welsh mwyth (soft, weak), Latin ?mung? (to blow one's nose), Tocharian A muk- (to let go, give up), Lithuanian mùkti (to slip away from), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (m??ati, to chase), Ancient Greek ???????? (mússomai, to blow the nose), Sanskrit ??????? (muñcati, to release, let loose).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mi?k/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mik/
  • Rhymes: -i?k

Adjective

meek (comparative meeker, superlative meekest)

  1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
    • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:
      Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
  2. Submissive, dispirited.
    • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street:
      What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:humble

Derived terms

  • meekly
  • meekness

Translations

Verb

meek (third-person singular simple present meeks, present participle meeking, simple past and past participle meeked)

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

Translations

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indulgent

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?d?ld??nt/
  • Hyphenation: in?dul?gent

Adjective

indulgent (comparative more indulgent, superlative most indulgent)

  1. Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing;
    • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

Synonyms

  • forbearing
  • gentle
  • lenient
  • tolerant

Derived terms

  • indulgential
  • indulgently

Related terms

  • indulge
  • indulgement
  • indulgence
  • indulgency
  • indulger
  • indulgiate

Translations

References

  • indulgent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.dyl.???/

Etymology 1

From Latin indulg?ns.

Adjective

indulgent (feminine singular indulgente, masculine plural indulgents, feminine plural indulgentes)

  1. lenient (tolerant; not strict)
Related terms
  • indulgence
  • indulger

Etymology 2

Verb

indulgent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of indulger
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of indulger

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

indulgent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of indulge?

Romanian

Etymology

From French indulgent, from Latin indulgens.

Adjective

indulgent m or n (feminine singular indulgent?, masculine plural indulgen?i, feminine and neuter plural indulgente)

  1. indulgent

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