Meek Definition

mēk

meeker, meekest

adjective

meeker, meekest

Patient and mild; not inclined to anger or resentment.

Webster's New World

Gentle or kind.

Webster's New World

Too submissive; easily imposed on; spineless; spiritless.

Webster's New World

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verb

(US) (of horses) To tame; to break.

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Other Word Forms of Meek

Base Form:

meek

Comparative:

meeker

Superlative:

meekest

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, from Old Norse mjúkr 'soft' (compare Swedish mjuk 'soft', and Danish myg 'supple'), from Proto-Germanic *mÅ«kaz (compare Dutch muik 'soft, overripe', dialectal German mauch 'dry and decayed, rotten', Mauche 'malanders'), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meug, *meuk- 'slick, slippery; to slip' (compare Old English smÅ«gan 'to slide, slip', Welsh mwyth 'soft, weak', Latin emungere 'to blow one's nose', Tocharian A muk 'to let go, give up', Lithuanian mùkti 'to slip away from', Old Church Slavonic mŭčati 'to chase', Ancient Greek myssesthai 'to blow the nose', Sanskrit muñcati 'he releases, lets loose').

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Middle English meke of Scandinavian origin Old Norse mjūkr soft

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition