The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABASE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Humble crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABASE | 57 % | 5 |
| LOWLY | 16 % | 5 |
| MEEK | 5 % | 4 |
| DEMEAN | 5 % | 6 |
| LOWER | 4 % | 5 |
| LOW | 2 % | 3 |
| TAKEDOWNAPEG | 2 % | 12 |
| MODEST | 2 % | 6 |
| MENIAL | 1 % | 6 |
| UNASSUMING | 1 % | 10 |
| CHASTEN | 1 % | 7 |
| ABASH | 1 % | 5 |
| SMALL | 1 % | 5 |
| TAKEDOWNAPEGORTWO | 1 % | 17 |
| DEBASE | 1 % | 6 |
| DEGRADE | 1 % | 7 |
| CASTDOWN | 1 % | 8 |
Why may ABASE be the right solution?
The word "abase" means to humble or belittle someone. Therefore, "abase" is a suitable answer for the clue "humble."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Humble
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- modest
- unskilled
- meek
- mortify
- inferior
- lowly
- humiliated
- small
- lowborn
- baseborn
- humiliate
- mild
Crossword Answer definitions
ABASE verb- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result LOWLY
- Humble
- Base
- Like Richard Scarry's worm
- Unpretentious
- "Life Among the __" (Stowe subtitle)
- Baseborn
- Menial
- On bended knee.
- Humble.
- Prideless.
More clues leading to the result MEEK
- Inheritors?
- Submissive
- Docile or gentle
- Docile
- Like a milquetoast
- Earth inheritors?
- Mild-mannered
- Earth's heirs?
- Earth's inheritors
- Far from bold
More clues leading to the result DEMEAN
- Take down a peg
- Abase
- Lower in dignity
- Put down
- Cut down to size
- Humble
- Humiliate
- Lower in status
- Take down a few pegs
- Hardly dignify
More clues leading to the result LOWER
- Decrease
- Devaluate
- Remove, as artwork
- Request from one getting a backrub
- Put down
- Mark down in price
- Reduce
- Bring down
- Bunk option
- Not as high
More clues leading to the result LOW
- Like some blows
- Girl Scout founder
- Immoral
- First gear
- Contemptible
- In need of supplies
- Like a bass
- Underhanded
- With 39-Across, like some cigarettes
- At sea level
More clues leading to the result TAKEDOWNAPEG
More clues leading to the result MODEST
- Humble composer reinterpreted by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, familiarly (6)
- Not liable to crow
- Understated
- Unostentatious
- Not at all vain
- Unassuming
- Shy
- Hardly extravagant
- Demure
- Not pretentious
More clues leading to the result MENIAL
- Like McJobs
- Lacking status, as tasks go
- Kind of labor
- Servile
- Lowly
- Unskilled
- Like peons
- Like some labor
- Humble
- Lowly, as a task
More clues leading to the result UNASSUMING
More clues leading to the result CHASTEN
- Discipline
- Punish
- Punish, or purify
- Punish for the sake of moral improvement
- Subdue
- Call on the carpet
- Humble
- Censure
- Discipline.
- Punish.
More clues leading to the result ABASH
- Embarrass
- Discompose
- Disconcert
- Make ill at ease
- Cow
- Put to shame
- Humiliate
- Bring shame to
- Destroy the self-confidence of
- Make ashamed
More clues leading to the result SMALL
- T-shirt size
- Dixie cup size
- Kind of change or talk
- See 39A
- Petty
- Like some talk or print
- Kind of talk or print
- Of no consequence
- Pint-sized
- Word with potatoes or talk
More clues leading to the result TAKEDOWNAPEGORTWO
More clues leading to the result DEBASE
- Contaminate
- Lower in character
- Take away the dignity of
- Humiliate
- Reduce in value
- Vilify
- Lower
- Adulterate
- Lower in quality
- Corrupt morally
More clues leading to the result DEGRADE
- Put down
- Lower
- Reduce in rank.
- Take down a peg.
- Bring low.
- Humble.
- Lower in rank.
- Lower in status.
- Drag in the dust.
- Bring into contempt