• (RP) IPA: /miːk/
• (America) IPA: /mik/

meek (comparative meeker, superlative meekest)

1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 5:5 ↗:

     Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:

     Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...

2. Submissive, dispirited.
   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009081751/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Main Street]:

     What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.

• See also Thesaurus:humble

• French: humble, modeste
• German: sanftmütig, bescheiden, zaghaft, zurückhaltend, fromm, demütig, sanft, hold, lammfromm, moderat
• Italian: modesto, timido, introverso, schivo, pavido
• Portuguese: modesto
• Russian: кро́ткий
• Spanish: modesto

• German: unterwürfig, kleinlaut, widerstandslos, duldsam, ergeben, gottergeben
• Italian: rassegnato, remissivo
• Portuguese: submisso, manso
• Russian: безро́потный
• Spanish: humilde, resignado, sumiso, manso, m

meek (meeks, present participle meeking; past and past participle meeked)

1. (US) (of horses) To tame#Verb|tame; to break#Verb|break.

• German: zähmen
• Russian: укрощать

1. Surname