MODEST


Meaning of MODEST in English

adjective

1.

Synonyms: humble 1, lowly, meek, unassuming

Related Word: moderate, temperate; retiring, withdrawing; unboastful; unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending

Contrasted words: barefaced, brazen, impudent, shameless

Antonyms: ambitious

2.

Synonyms: shy 1, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, retiring, self-effacing, timid, unassertive, unassured

Related Word: reticent, silent; nice, proper, seemly

3.

Synonyms: chaste , clean, decent, immaculate, pure, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled, unsullied

Related Word: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced, stuffy

Contrasted words: improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, unseemly

Antonyms: immodest

4.

Synonyms: moderate 2, reasonable, temperate

5.

Synonyms: plain 1, discreet, dry, inelaborate, simple, unelaborate, unembellished, unembroidered, unornamented, unpretentious

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