meek
adjective
[ miːk ]
• quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.
• "she brought her meek little husband along"
Similar:
patient,
long-suffering,
forbearing,
resigned,
gentle,
quiet,
shy,
retiring,
reverent,
peaceful,
peaceable,
docile,
lamblike,
mild,
demure,
modest,
humble,
lowly,
diffident,
unassuming,
self-effacing,
unpretentious,
unambitious,
unobtrusive,
submissive,
yielding,
unresisting,
obedient,
compliant,
tame,
biddable,
tractable,
acquiescent,
deferential,
weak,
timid,
frightened,
spineless,
spiritless,
unprotesting,
like a lamb to the slaughter,
weak-kneed,
wimpish,
Origin:
Middle English me(o)c (also in the sense ‘courteous or indulgent’), from Old Norse mjúkr ‘soft, gentle’.
