v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

v. cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

adj. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"