meeker
- 1Comparative of meek.
She was meeker than the other candidates and never once mentioned her own awards.
Years under a harsh boss had left him meeker, quick to agree rather than argue.
Note
Like most one-syllable adjectives, meek compares with -er, and more meek means the same. The comparative keeps both sides of the word, and only the sentence decides between them: more modest, claiming less for oneself, or more cowed, yielding where others would push back. The spelling is shared by accident with a farming verb for harrowing, which comes from a toolmaker's brand.
- 2A family name.
- 3The administrative center for Colorado's Rio Blanco County, a small town.
- 4An Oklahoma community, incorporated as a town, within Lincoln County.
- 5A small community without its own town government in Marion County, Ohio.
- 6A West Virginia settlement with no municipal government, situated within Tyler County.
- 7A settlement, no longer existing as a separate place, now absorbed into Germantown, a Wisconsin village in Washington County.
- 8To break up clods and smooth the surface of soil by working it with a harrow.
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meeker is a form of meek
meek, adjective: Quiet, gentle, and humble in manner, tending to accept what others say or do without protest or resistance. Full entry
- Spelling
- meek → meeker: add -er
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Origin
Taken from the brand name of a maker of harrows.