单词 | meek |
释义 | meek/miːk![]() adjective Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive: she brought her meek little husband along...
Synonyms patient, long-suffering, forbearing, resigned; gentle, quiet, shy, retiring, reverent, peaceful, peaceable, docile, lamblike, mild, demure, modest, humble, lowly, diffident, unassuming, self-effacing, unpretentious, unambitious, unobtrusive submissive, yielding, unresisting, obedient, compliant, tame, biddable, tractable, acquiescent, deferential, weak, timid, frightened, spineless, spiritless, unprotesting, like a lamb to the slaughter informal weak-kneed, wimpish OriginMiddle English me(o)c (also in the sense 'courteous or indulgent'), from Old Norse mjúkr 'soft, gentle'. Rhymes |
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