meek

Senso (English)

Adj

1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
2. Submissive, dispirited.

Verb

(of horses) To tame; to break.

Synonyms

humble

gentle

mild

modest

submissive

quiet

obedient

docile

tame

lowly

tender

unassuming

soft

placid

placable

spiritless

deferential

kind

be gentle

subdued

uncomplaining

tractable

dumb

timid

patient

plain

pliant

quaggy

reserved

resigned

reticent

sensitive

sheep

🐑

silent

🔇

smooth

soft-hearted

softy

speechless

squashy

still

subservient

supplicatory

sweet

taciturn

temperate

unaffected

unctuous

unmurmuring

unpretentious

unresisting

waxen

weak

well-behaved

mild-mannered

good and obedient

having fortitude

lamblike

dove-like

nebbishy

good

👍

submiss

affable

attentive

benign

biddable

bland

calm

clement

compliant

crumby

delicate

demure

domesticated

dutiful

effeminate

enduring

even-tempered

faithful

follower

limp

low

malleable

mellow

obscure

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/miːk/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: meek

Cognate with inglese antico: smēag

Cognate with svedese: -

Cognate with norvegese nynorsk: mjuk

Cognate with norvegese bokmål: myk

Cognate with danese: myg

Cognate with olandese: muik

Cognate with tedesco: mauch

Cognate with gallese: mwyth

Cognate with latino: ēmungō

Cognate with Tokharian A: muk-

Cognate with lituano: mùkti

Cognate with slavo ecclesiastico: мъчати

Cognate with greco antico: μύσσομαι

Cognate with sanscrito: मुञ्चति

In summary

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, unknown origin, likely related to Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan and possibly a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“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 as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Old Church Slavonic мъчати (mŭčati, “to chase”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati, “to release, let loose”).