Humble vs. Ostentatious — What's the Difference?

Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.

Characterized by or given to ostentation.

Showing deferential or submissive respect

Of ostentation.

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly

Intended to attract notice.

To cause to feel humble

Of tawdry display; kitsch.

To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.

Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Intended to attract notice and impress others;

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

To hum.

(transitive) hummel.

An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

Hornless. See Hummel.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.

Cause to be unpretentious;

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

Low or inferior in station or quality;

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);