modest
About 12.45 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- adjective Small, moderate in size.
He earns a modest amount of money.
- adjective Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
modest thoughts or language
- adjective Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
Similar words
humble demure unassuming meek minor unpretentious unostentatious simple inferior lowly
Often followed by
and in but means scale man amount way proposal
Word family
modester modestest modestly
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