adj. Function: adjective
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Synonyms: HUMBLE 1, lowly, meek, unassuming
Related Words: moderate, temperate; retiring, withdrawing; unboastful; unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending
Contrasted Words: barefaced, brazen, impudent, shameless
Antonyms: ambitious
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Synonyms: SHY 1, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, retiring, self-effacing, timid, unassertive, unassured
Related Words: reticent, silent; nice, proper, seemly
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Synonyms: CHASTE , clean, decent, immaculate, pure, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled, unsullied
Related Words: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced, stuffy
Contrasted Words: improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, unseemly
Antonyms: immodest
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Synonyms: MODERATE 2, reasonable, temperate
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Synonyms: PLAIN 1, discreet, dry, inelaborate, simple, unelaborate, unembellished, unembroidered, unornamented, unpretentious