meekness

Other forms of meekness

plural

meeknesses·

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.

Questions about meekness

What does meekness mean?

meekness means "the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meekness?

meekness has 2 syllables: meek-ness. The stress falls on "meek".

What is another word for meekness?

Close synonyms include submission, subduedness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meekness a common word?

meekness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.