3. adj.Usage: As an adjective directly modifying a noun, may be used largely interchangeably with 小さな, the -na adjective form. In predicative use, only 小さい (chīsai) may be used: あれは
1. adj. Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.
2. adj. Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
3. v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
4. v. (often, reflexive) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive.
5. n. (Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) alternative form of hummel.