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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Meek \Meek\ (m[=e]k), a. [Compar. Meeker (m[=e]k"[~e]r);
     superl. Meekest.] [OE. mek, meoc; akin to Icel. mj[=u]kr
     mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D. muik, Goth. mukam[=o]dei
     gentleness.]
     1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient
        under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful;
        forbearing; submissive.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Now the man Moses was very meek.      --Num. xii. 3.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by
        mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face.
        ``Her meek prayer.'' --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming;
          humble. See Gentle.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Meek \Meek\, Meeken \Meek"en\ (-'n), v. t.
     To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.]
     --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Meek \Meek\, a. [Compar. Meeker; superl. Meekest.] [OE. mek,
     meoc; akin to Icel. mj?kr mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D.
     muik, Goth. mukam?dei gentleness.]
     1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient
        under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful;
        forbearing; submissive.
  
              Not the man Moses was very meek.      --Num. xii. 3.
  
     2. Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by
        mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face.
        ``Her meek prayer.'' --Chaucer.
  
     Syn: Gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming;
          humble. See Gentle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Meek \Meek\, Meeken \Meek"en\ (-'n), v. t.
     To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.]
     --Chaucer.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  meek
       adj 1: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or
              even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
              [syn: mild, modest]
       2: very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston
          Hughes [syn: tame]
       3: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
          compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
          those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek
          conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had
          the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
          [syn: compliant, spiritless]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  meek
     a.
     1 humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
     2 submissive, dispirited.
     vb.
     (lb en US) (lb en of horses) To tame#Verb; to break#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Meek
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en unincorporated community co/Holt County s/Nebraska
  c/USA).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  meek
     a.
     1 humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
     2 submissive, dispirited.
     vb.
     (lb en US) (lb en of horses) To tame#Verb; to break#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Meek
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en unincorporated community co/Holt County s/Nebraska
  c/USA).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  meek
     a.
     1 humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
     2 submissive, dispirited.
     vb.
     (lb en US) (lb en of horses) To tame#Verb; to break#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Meek
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en unincorporated community co/Holt County s/Nebraska
  c/USA).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  meek
     a.
     1 humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
     2 submissive, dispirited.
     vb.
     (lb en US) (lb en of horses) To tame#Verb; to break#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Meek
     n.
     1 (surname: en).
     2 (place en unincorporated community co/Holt County s/Nebraska
  c/USA).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  meek
     Englanti a.
     sävyisä,  nöyrä

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Meek /mˈiːk/
  وديع

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  meek //mik// //miːk// 
  1. кротък, мек
  humble, modest, or self-effacing
  2. покорен, смирен
  submissive, dispirited

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  meek /mˈiːk/ 
  trpělivý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  meek /mˈiːk/ 
  pokorný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  meek /mˈiːk/ 
  skromný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  meek /mˈiːk/ 
  poddajný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  hold, holdseliglich  [poet.]
     Synonyms: lovely, sweet, fair
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  mild 
   see: meeker, meekest
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  sanftmütig 
        "as meek as a lamb"  - so sanft wie ein Lamm

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  unterwürfig 

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  
  πειθήνιος, άτολμος, πράος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  meek //mik// //miːk// 
  1. nöyrä, vaatimaton
  humble, modest, or self-effacing
  2. alistuva
  submissive, dispirited

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  meek //mik// //miːk// 
  kesyttää
  to tame, to break

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  meek /mˈiːk/ 
  1. दब्बू, अहंकार रहित
        "He is a pretty meek fellow."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  blag, mek, mekan, popustljiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  1. szelíd
  2. alázatos
  3. szende
  4. nyájas
  5. szerény
  6. béketûrô

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  meek //mik// //miːk// 
  rendah hati
  humble, modest, or self-effacing

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  meek //mik// //miːk// 
  blyg
  humble, modest, or self-effacing

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  meek /mi:k/ 
    potulny

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  meek //mik// //miːk// 
  1. ödmjuk
  humble, modest, or self-effacing
  2. undergiven
  submissive, dispirited

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  meek /mˈiːk/
  1. sabırlı ve yumuşak başlı, uysal, sakin
  2. alçak gönüllü, mütevazı
  3. kişiliksiz. meekspirited  alçak gönüllü. as meek as a lamb kuzu gibi, uysal. meekly  uysalca . meekness  uysallık.

From Norwegian Nynorsk-Norwegian Bokmål FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:nno-nob ]

  Meek
  Meek

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈmik/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "meek":
     abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting,
     amenable, bland, broken, chastened, compliant, deferential, docile,
     domesticated, dovelike, forbearing, gentle, housebroken, humble,
     humble-minded, humble-spirited, humblehearted, lamblike, lenient,
     long-suffering, lowly, manageable, meek-minded, meek-spirited,
     meekhearted, mild, modest, obedient, pacific, passive, patient,
     peaceable, poor in spirit, quiet, reconciled, repressed, resigned,
     retiring, shy, spiritless, subdued, submissive, suppressed, tame,
     tamed, timid, tolerant, tractable, unambitious, unaspiring,
     unassuming, unboastful, uncomplaining, unimposing, unobtrusive,
     unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending,
     unpretentious, unresisting, weak, yielding
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 温顺的,谦恭的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 温顺的,谦恭的

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