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meekness
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meekness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | submission |
| Synonyms: | docility, humility, mildness, modesty, timidity, timidness |
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
| Synonyms: | abasement, bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, docility, fawning, inferiority complex, lack of pride, lowliness, meekness, mortification, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, passiveness, reserve, resignation, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, shyness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timidity, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance |
| Main Entry: | modesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence |
| Main Entry: | obedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good behavior; submissiveness |
| Synonyms: | accordance, acquiescence, agreement, compliance, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence, servility, submission, subservience, tameness, tractability, willingness |
| Antonyms: | bad behavior, disobedience, misbehavior, mischief, mutiny, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endurance, passivity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acquiescence, compliance, conformity, deference, docility, forbearing, fortitude, humbleness, humility, longanimity, lowliness, meekness, modesty, nonresistance, patience, patientness, resignedness, submission, submissiveness, sufferance |
| Antonyms: | impatience, intolerance, resistance |
| Main Entry: | submission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, appeasement, assent, backing down, bowing, capitulation, cringing, defeatism, deference, docility, giving in, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, obedience, passivism, passivity, pliabilty, prostration, recreancy, resignation, servility, subjection, submissiveness, submitting, surrender, tractability, unassertiveness, yielding |
| Antonyms: | fight, resistance |
| Main Entry: | gentleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | docility |
| Synonyms: | meekness, obedience, tameness |
| Main Entry: | shyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bashfulness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, coyness, demureness, diffidence, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reserve, restraint, reticence, sheepishness, timidity, timidness, timorousness |
| Main Entry: | unimportance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness |
| Synonyms: | humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, obscureness |
| Antonyms: | conceit, importance |
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