Word Meanings - DEMISSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Downcast; submissive; humble. They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord .

Related words: (words related to DEMISSIVE)

• HUMBLER
  One who, or that which, humbles some one.
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• HUMBLEHEAD
  Humble condition or estate; humility. Chaucer.
• SUBMISSIVE
  1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton. 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as,
• DOWNCAST
  Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. 'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. Dryden. - Down"cast`ly, adv. -- Down"cast`ness, n.
• HUMBLEBEE
  The bumblebee. Shak. (more info) hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. sq.
• DEMISSIVE
  Downcast; submissive; humble. They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord .
• HUMBLES
  Entrails of a deer. Johnson.
• HUMBLENESS
  The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
• HUMBLESSE
  Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. Chaucer. Spenser.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• NONSUBMISSIVE
  Not submissive.