Synonyms of meek

meek

adjective

ˈmēk 

as in humble

not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness

a meek girl who quietly went along with whatever her circle of friends wanted

Synonyms & Similar Words

• humble
• modest
• timid
• unaffected
• unassuming
• lowly
• demure
• naive
• shy
• down-to-earth
• quiet
• unpretentious
• passive
• subdued
• submissive
• simple
• unassertive
• acquiescent
• deferential
• compliant
• resigned
• unaggressive
• naïve
• reserved
• bashful
• plain
• mousy
• sheepish
• diffident
• yielding
• introverted
• shrinking
• retiring
• ingenuous
• unobtrusive
• mousey
• cowering
• cringing
• self-effacing
• self-deprecating
• overmodest
• aw-shucks
• self-deprecatory

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• arrogant
• haughty
• superior
• aggressive
• imperious
• egotistical
• supercilious
• conceited
• pompous
• bumptious
• assertive
• pretentious
• uppity
• presumptuous
• impudent
• peremptory
• confident
• lordly
• high-and-mighty
• bold
• egotistic
• huffy
• uppish
• brash
• cocky
• brassy
• cheeky
• impertinent
• high-handed
• forward
• saucy
• chesty
• audacious
• high-hat
• overweening
• presuming
• highfalutin
• smug
• overconfident
• cocksure
• narcissistic
• dominant
• vain
• self-assertive
• egocentric
• hubristic
• prideful
• boastful
• domineering
• egoistic
• huffish
• self-asserting
• bombastic
• hoity-toity
• egoistical
• hifalutin
• toplofty
• vainglorious
• overbearing
• condescending
• disdainful
• self-confident
• toploftical
• swaggering
• fastuous
• patronizing
• showy
• flamboyant
• dominating
• self-centered
• outgoing
• magisterial
• ostentatious
• stuck-up
• self-satisfied
• self-contented
• self-important
• self-complacent
• extroverted
• uninhibited
• self-conceited
• self-obsessed
• self-engrossed
• extraverted
• self-affected
• swelled-headed
• self-pleased
• unreserved
• self-congratulatory
• immodest
• braggy
• pontificating

Examples of meek in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The list includes nations large and small, rich and poor, mighty and meek, industrial and agrarian, developed and undeveloped, diverse and homogeneous, well established and newly or recently created. —Eli Amdur, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024

The paintings, yes, thwart the racist stereotype that Asian women are meek and docile, but that’s not a statement Ba is trying to make. —Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 5 Sep. 2024

Scholz’s Social Democrats recorded meek results, scoring around seven percent in Saxony and falling to six percent in Thuringia. —Mahnoor Khan, Fortune Europe, 2 Sep. 2024

To some, the sea seemed too large, too immutable, to do something so meek as disappear. —Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024