Dictionary

modest en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈmɑdəst/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle French modeste, from Latin modestus.

Meanings

1. Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
2. Small, moderate in size.
   • Her latest novel was a modest success.
   • He earns a modest amount of money.
3. Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
   • modest thoughts or language
4. (especially, of behavior or clothing) Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.

Forms

Antonyms

overweening · immoderate · yuge · delicious · gorgeous · devilish · alluring · high-hat · ribald · snooty · big · hubristic · hubristical · uppity · stonking · arrogant · pantagruelian · immense · ribaudred · supercilious · glaring · tumid · highfalutin · voluminous · priggish · expansive · hankty · filthy · unreasonable · obscene · naff · behemothic · humongous · salacious · saucy · corny · imperious · rotund · flamboyant · snobbish · gigantuan (colloquial · indecent · grandiose · boxcar · sensual · whopping · boastful · seductive · wanton · kitsch · Pythonic · vast · hoity-toity · bonable · bedizened · elephantine · unbecoming · gay · stupendous · flaunting · impure · fanciable · lordly · disdainful · horny · off-colour · sexalicious · bulky · great big · great · provocative · spicy · arrogant · puffed up · humpable · vain · insolent · crude · vain · thrasonical · monstrous · pretentious · provocative · monumental · immodest · uppish · licentious · orgulous · racy · shaggable · massive · nimious · horrendous · thrasonic · stuck up · considerable · screwable · obscene · egotistical · oversized · la-di-da · self-important · ostentatious · oversize · sensual · sexable · gaudy · raunchy · brash · blustery · slutty · leviathan · haught · fapworthy · beautiful · effable · tremendous · undue · giant · tartish · immane · untasteful · whorish · colossal · overbearing · wide · ample · big-headed · cheeky · dreamy · ribaudrous · arousing · ginormous · ithyphallic · ritzy · splendiferous · full · Daniel Lambertish · sexy · chintzy · gauche · uppy · astronomic · trinkety · overmuch · tacky · over the top · fuckable · vulgar · flossy · mucky · high and mighty · high-handed · turgescent · larger than life · trampy · fappable · salacious · immodest · chichi · entitled · florid · loud · lavish · hulking · snazzy · enormous · crass · desirable · nonstandard)) · toplofty · stout · too much · doable · cocky · honkin' · conceited · prodigious · sanctimonious · swoonsome · bonerific · good-sized · upstage · blue · raunchy · pyramidal · gussied up · mega- · largifical · schlocky · bangable · bombastic · mountainous · pizazzy · overlarge · chesty · risqué · hittable · roomy · slutlike · tall · inflated · hunormous · spacious · mammoth · bedworthy · commodious · pretentious · blingish · gargantuan · titanic · bodacious · huge · exceeding · sizeable · buggish · sexy · Brobdingnagian · giantesque · intemperate · big fat · lewd · tasty · obscene · peng · bawdy · showy · flaunting · prodigal · obscene · attractive · toothsome · grand · de trop · cyclopean · snotty · tarty · rootable · fine · shocking · raffish · naughty · glorious · gross · near the knuckle · buff · hench · extreme · flatulent · flashy · obtrusive · beddable · long · mahoosive · biggity · airy · broad · substantial · kitschy · extravagant · excessive · elephantic · generous · harlot · cosmic · hefty · tasteless · outsized · overweening · super- · mastodonic · gigantic · gross · haut · smutty · haughty · unrestrained · pimped out · domineering · fit · garish · sluttish · blatant · ostentatious · rorty · holier-than-thou · full of oneself · presumptuous · dirty · zesty · hideous · meretricious · toploftical · jumbo · immodest · campy · supersized · adult · catchpenny · hot · pompous · froufrou · unmeasured · authoritarian · turgid · tinselly · gigantesque · tawdry · liberal

Deriveds

overmodest · pseudomodest · modestness · modestly · hypermodest · unmodest · of modest means · modest proposal · ultramodest · modest cadlina · supermodest

Relateds

modesty

Synonyms

verecund · chaste · mild · lit'l · moderate · prudish · simple · diffident · meek · bare · modest · demure · slight · ickle · meek · poor · chaste · self-effacing · unornamented · modest · humble-hearted · fun size · small-scale · slim · tiny · untrimmed · unadorned · spartan · small · lowly · ungarnished · medium · undecked · chaste · inornate · virginal · unextravagant · quiet · medial · demure · compact · resigned · austere · petty · pocket-size · wee · abased · little · low · demure · middling · humble · austere · fun-sized · moderate · wurly · middle · unpretentious · plain · intermediate · mild · unvarnished · unembellished · mini · undersized · severe · average · low · modest · insignificant · pint-sized

Translations (136)

cmn 謙遜 /谦逊 (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · pt modesto (small) · pl niewielki (small) · hy համեստ (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · ru благопристо́йный (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · es pequeño (small) · pt modesto (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · yi באַשיידן (small) · mk скромен (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · vi khiêm tốn (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cmn 端莊的 /端庄的 (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · cmn 謙虛 /谦虚 (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · de maßvoll (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · it esiguo (small) · cmn 數量不大的 /数量不大的 (small) · sv liten (small) · da anstændig (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · es pudoroso (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · el σεμνός (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · pt recatado (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · el μετριόφρων (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · ht modès (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · ang sċamfæst (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hi नम्र (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · yi באַשיידן (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · az təvazölü (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cmn 謙讓 /谦让 (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · he צָנוּעַ (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · eo modesta (small) · bg скро́мен (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · el ταπεινός (small) · pl skromny (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · ja 謙虚な (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · la modestus (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · it modesto (small) · ga modhúil (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · it modesto (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · da beskeden (small) · lt kuklus (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · fr modeste (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hi लज्जावान (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hi विनम्र (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hy համեստ (small) · hi साधारण (small) · nl ingetogen (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · bg сдържан (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · ja 謙遜した (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · yi צניעותדיק (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · cmn 虛心 /虚心 (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · tr naçiz (small) · cmn 謙恭 /谦恭 (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · mi whakamōwai (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · eo modesta (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · de klein (small) · nl fatsoenlijk (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · sl skromen (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · fr modeste (small) · da sømmelig (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · ga adhnáireach (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · it irrisorio (small) · pdt bescheiden (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cmn 樸素的 /朴素的 (small) · es módico (small) · ar مُتْوَاضِع (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hy համեստ (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · grc αἰδήμων (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · fi vaatimaton (small) · ko 겸손하다 (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cmn 小的 (small) · es modesto (small) · ga modhúil (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · sk skromný (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · da moderat (small) · ga náireach (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · nl ingetogen (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · nl zedig (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · de gering (small) · ga náiriúil (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · da beskeden (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · de bescheiden (small) · pt decente (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · tr mütevazı (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · tr naçizane (small) · tr mütevazı (small) · lv pieticīgs (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · fi vaatimaton (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · es decente (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · grc αἰδοῖος (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cs skromný (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · nl bescheiden (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cmn 少量的 (small) · nl eerbaar (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · da ærbar (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · de sittsam (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · da blufærdig (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · th ถ่อมตัว (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · tr alçak gönüllü (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · sh skrȍman (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · la modestus (small) · mi pōrearea (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · ru скро́мный (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · sh скро̏ман (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hi शालीन (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · ca modest (small) · es modesto (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · es moderado (small) · ro modest (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · cmn 略微的 (small) · gl modesto (small) · ru скро́мный (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · ja 適度 (small) · be сці́плы (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · de bescheiden (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · gl modesto (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · hu szerény (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · el ταπεινός (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · ca modest (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · es púdico (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · pl skromny (small) · tr kalender (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · es humilde (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · sv blygsam (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · uk скро́мний (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · de moderat (small) · de anständig (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · el σεμνός (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · az təvazökar (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · nl kuis (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · ca modest (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · fi siveä (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · cmn 適度的 /适度的 (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · ar مُحْتَشِم (intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others) · be скро́мны (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements) · nl bescheiden (small) · ru скро́мный (small) · hy պարկեշտ (not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements)