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good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, nice, pleasant; clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft; patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding; altruistic, brotherly, charitable, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, magnanimous, noble, philanthropic, unselfish, unsparing

Antonyms

barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, savage, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic

human immunodeficiency virus noun : HIV

hu·man·ism noun 1 : devotion to the humanities; also : the revival of classical letters characteristic of the Renaissance

2 : a doctrine or way of life centered on human interests or values

— hu·man·ist noun or adjective

— hu·man·is·tic adjective

1humanitarian noun : one who practices philanthropy

— hu·man·i·tar·i·an·ism noun

2humanitarian adjective : concerned for or active in the promotion of human welfare

Synonyms

altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, charitable, philanthropic—more at CHARITABLE

hu·man·i·ty noun, plural -ties 1 : the quality or state of being human or humane

2 plural : the branches of learning dealing with human concerns (as philosophy) as opposed to natural processes (as physics)

3 : the human race

Synonyms

[1] charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, heart, kindliness, kindness, mercy, pity, sympathy—more at HEART

[3] folks, humankind, people, persons, public, society, world—more at PEOPLE

hu·man·ize verb -ized; -iz·ing : to make human or humane

— hu·man·iza·tion noun

— hu·man·iz·er noun

hu·man·kind noun : the human race

Synonyms

Homo sapiens, humanity, man, mankind—more at MANKIND

hu·man·oid adjective : having human form or characteristics

— humanoid noun

human pap·il·lo·ma·virus noun : any of numerous DNA-containing viruses that cause various human warts

1humble adjective hum·bler ; hum·blest [ORIGIN: ME, fr. AF, fr. L humilis low, humble, fr. humus earth]

1 : not proud or haughty

2 : not pretentious : UNASSUMING

3 : ranking low in a hierarchy or scale

Synonyms

[2] demure, lowly, meek, modest, retiring, unassuming, unpretentious; also acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yielding; cowering, cringing, shrinking; ingenuous, naive, plain, simple, unaffected; bashful, diffident, mousy, overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive

Antonyms

arrogant, conceited, presumptuous, proud, self-important

[3] common, ignoble, inferior, low, lowly, mean, plebeian, vulgar—more at IGNOBLE

2humble verb hum·bled; hum·bling 1 : to make humble

2 : to destroy the power or prestige of

— hum·bler noun

Synonyms

abase, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humiliate, lower, shame, smirch, take down; also abash, discomfit, discountenance, embarrass, fluster, mortify; belittle, castigate, criticize, decry, depreciate, detract, disparage, minimize, put down, ridicule; bad-mouth, defame, defile, libel, malign, slander; affront, insult; censure, condemn, damn, denounce, reprobate

Antonyms

aggrandize, elevate, exalt

hum·ble·ness noun : the quality or state of being humble

Synonyms

humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty—more at HUMILITY

hum·bly adverb : in a humble manner

Synonyms

lowly, meekly, modestly, sheepishly

1humbug noun 1 : something designed to deceive and mislead : HOAX

2 : language, conduct, or an idea that is absurd or contrary to good sense : NONSENSE

3 : a willfully false, deceptive, or insincere person

Synonyms

[1] counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, phony, sham—more at FAKE

[2] bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddlesticks, folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, slush, stupidity, trash—more at NONSENSE

[3] charlatan, fake, fraud, hoaxer, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack

2humbug verb hum·bugged; hum·bug·ging : to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid : DECEIVE

Synonyms

beguile, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoax, hoodwink, misinform,