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say it: HUHM-buhld
humbled is an adjective meaning "subdued or brought low in condition or status". It is pronounced /ˈhʌmbəld/ — HUHM-buhld. It carries one recorded sense.
subdued or brought low in condition or status
“brought low”
“a broken man”
“his broken spirit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for humbled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.