meeker

meeker is the comparative form of meek.

Meaning of meek

meek (comparative meeker, superlative meekest)

Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
- Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5
Synonyms:

abased, demure, verecund, diffident, humble, humble-hearted, low, lowly, mild, modest
Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
- 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.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC
Synonyms:

compliant, passive, abject, servile, amenable, biddable, complaisant, controllable, docile, governable

meeker (third-person singular simple present meekers, present participle meekering, simple past and past participle meekered)

To break up and smooth soil with a harrow.
- After the field has been meekered it looks like it had been gone over with a garden rake, all clods having been cut or crushed and as level as a floor.1918, Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, page 333
- I did not think it was necessary for all of you realize that your ground should be plowed, disked, harrowed, and meekered for a good seed bed.1943, Ohio Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

Meeker

A surname.
A town, the county seat of Rio Blanco County, Colorado.
- The flock spent most of the next day about Chasm Lake, just under the northern crags of Meeker.1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Ohio.
A town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
A former hamlet in the village of Germantown, Washington County, Wisconsin.

third-person singular present	meekers
present participle	meekering
past participle	meekered
past	meekered

From the brand name of a harrow maker.

What does meeker mean?: Meeker means to break up and smooth soil with a harrow.
What is meeker the comparative form of?: Meeker is the comparative form of meek.
What part of speech is meeker?: Meeker can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of meeker?: The past tense of meeker is meekered.

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