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# meekly

«meekly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a quiet, gentle way, without arguing or fighting back** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (meekly)

### meaning for a pupil

In a quiet, gentle way, without arguing or fighting back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character gives in or obeys without a word, sometimes too easily. Alice sometimes answers meekly when the creatures are rude. In the Bible, «Blessed are the meek» means people who are gentle and humble.

### examples

- «Yes, Miss,» he said meekly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#x1)
- The puppy sat meekly when told off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#x2)
- Alice answered meekly, «I—I hardly know, sir.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#x3)
- She meekly handed over her sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#x4)
- Toad meekly followed Badger into the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#x5)
- He meekly agreed to tidy his room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/#x6)

### note

From «meek» (gentle, humble). Meekly does not mean weak: it can be gentle on purpose.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meekly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meekly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.