Definition for Meekness:

• a calm temper of mind, not easily provoked ( James 3:13 ). Peculiar promises are made to the meek ( Matthew 5:5 ; Isaiah 66:2 ). The cultivation of this spirit is enjoined ( Colossians 3:12 ; 1 Timothy 6:11 ; Zephaniah 2:3 ), and is exemplified in Christ ( Matthew 11:29 ), Abraham ( Genesis 13 ; Genesis 16:5 Genesis 16:6 ) Moses ( Numbers 12:3 ), David ( Zechariah 12:8 ; 2 Sam Zechariah 16:10 Zechariah 16:12 ), and Paul ( 1 Corinthians 9:19 ).

Synonyms for Meekness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • subduedness,
  • meekness.
  •compliance (noun)
  • consent,
  • agreement,
  • concurrence,
  • assent,
  • homage,
  • affirmation,
  • acceptance,
  • submissiveness,
  • compliance,
  • surrender,
  • obeisance,
  • willingness,
  • observance,
  • fulfillment,
  • fealty,
  • acquiescence,
  • capitulation,
  • deference,
  • conformity,
  • conformance,
  • servility,
  • respect,
  • genuflection,
  • adherence.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • self-consciousness,
  • mousiness,
  • timidity,
  • in security,
  • sheepishness,
  • insecurity,
  • timorousness,
  • unassertiveness.
  •docility (noun)
  • docility.
  •humbleness (noun)
  • self efface,
  • self effaces,
  • selfeffaces,
  • self-effaces,
  • selfefface.
  •humility (noun)
  • plainness,
  • unassumingness,
  • unpretentiousness,
  • contrition,
  • homeliness.
  •resignation (noun)
  • longanimity,
  • patientness,
  • sufferance,
  • resignedness.
  •submission (noun)
  • mildness.
  •unimportance (noun)
  • obscureness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Lowliness.
  •
  • self-love,
  • attitude.

Antonyms for Meekness:

• n.

  • submission
    pride, arrogance.
  • Other antonyms:
    imperiousness, boastfulness, conceit, flamboyance, Self-conceit, ostentation, loftiness, haughtiness, egotism, overconfidence, swagger, assertiveness, bumptiousness, attitude, presumptuousness, Self-opinion, superiority, insolence, toploftiness, self-satisfaction, sauciness, audaciousness, boldness, pretentiousness, huffiness, Self-partiality, cocksureness, nerve, self-assumption, impudence, condescension, self-centeredness, pompousness, disdain, lordliness, vanity, vaingloriousness, cheekiness, aggressiveness, brashness, showiness, scorn, self-importance, egoism, cheek, temerity, Self-applause, Peremptoriness, swash, cockiness, superciliousness, pridefulness, pretense, pretension, pomposity, forwardness, Brassiness, impertinence, assumption, ostentatiousness, self-complacency.

Meekness Sentence Examples:

• None can enter into that soul to hinder it to possess itself in meekness and patience.

• If any one had seen the countenance of the Reverend George at that moment he would have observed that it became suddenly clothed with an air of meekness that was by no means attractive.

Homophones for Meekness:

• make noise, masking, misogynic, machine wash, moneymaking, mechanise, mincing, monosemous, minginess, magnanimous, meshing, monogenic, monochamus, micmac, mischance, musing, machine-wash, masonic, mismanage, monogynous, make sense, maximize, messiness, monogenesis, miasmic, making, manginess, mansion house, mushiness, monogamous, makomako, menacing, mickey mouse, mesonic, monogynic, mah-jongg, misogynous, miniconju, mucinous, missing, mugging, mechanics, Mishnaic, messianic, mechanize, mugginess, Muskiness, manganese, mocking, magnesia, messaging, mekong, Mexican Onyx, maximise, mahjong, maconnais, muchness, mechanic, mishmash, mixing, moss genus, mawkishness, mussiness, mackenzie, muggins.

Hypernym for Meekness:

• n.

  • attribute
    spinelessness.

Hyponym for Meekness:

• n.

  • attribute
    humility, humbleness.
  • feeling
    humility, humbleness.