Modest

Adjective

 * 1) Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements,  unpretentious, humble.
 * 2) Small, moderate in size.
 * He earns a modest amount of money.
 * Her latest novel was a modest success.
 * 1) (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:humble
 * See also Thesaurus:intermediate
 * See also Thesaurus:small

Antonyms

 * immodest

Derived terms

 * modesty

Adverbs for Modest
extremely; girlishly; engagingly charmingly; peculiarly; becomingly; naturally; foolishly; ridiculously; touchingly; adorably; absurdly; comically; demurely; delicately; decently; decorously; admirably; attractively; pleasingly.

Thesaurus
Olympian, aloof, altruistic, backward, bashful, becoming, betwixt and between, blank, boggling, budget, cheap, chilled, chilly, clean, cold, committed, common, consecrated, constrained, cool, coy, decent, decorous, dedicated, delicate, demeaning, demure, demurring, detached, devoted, diffident, disadvantaged, discreet, disinterested, distant, dry, dull, easy, economic, economy, elegant, expressionless, fair, fair to middling, fairish, faltering, forbidding, frigid, frosty, frugal, guarded, hesitant, hesitating, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, icy, immaculate, impassive, impersonal, in the shade, inaccessible, inconspicuous, indifferent, inexpensive, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, innocuous, insipid, introverted, junior, lackluster, least, less, lesser, limited, low, low-priced, lower, lowest, lowliest, lowly, manageable, mean, mediocre, medium, meek, middling, minor, moderate, namby-pamby, nice, nominal, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, offish, ordinary, passable, plain, poor, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, pure, puritanical, qualmish, reasonable, reluctant, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, respectable, restrained, restricted, reticent, retiring, sacrificing, scrupulous, second rank, second string, secondary, seemly, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-conscious, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, sensible, servile, shabby, shoddy, shrinking, shy, silent, simple, small, so-so, spotless, squeamish, stainless, standoff, standoffish, stickling, straitlaced, stuffy, sub, subaltern, subdued, subject, subordinate, subservient, suppressed, teachable, tedious, temperate, third rank, third string, timid, timorous, token, tolerable, unacquisitive, unaffable, unambitious, unapproachable, unaspiring, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, unblemished, unboastful, uncongenial, undefiled, undemonstrative, underprivileged, understated, undistinguished, unelaborate, unembellished, unexaggerated, unexceptional, unexpansive, unexpensive, ungenial, unimportant, unimposing, unobtrusive, unornamented, unostentatious, unpossessive, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self, unsullied, vapid, vulgar, wishy-washy, withdrawing, withdrawn, within means, worth the money

Translations

 * Arabic: حيي, خجول
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 謙虛, 谦虚, 謙讓, 谦让
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 謙虚, 謙遜した
 * Korean: 겸손한
 * Latvian: pieticīgs
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: skromen, skromna , skromno
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: khiêm tốn


 * Arabic: متواضع
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 些许的 (xiēxǔ de); 不太大的 (bú tàidài de)


 * Danish: ,
 * Greek: ταπεινός
 * Russian:


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 朴素的 (pǔsù de); 庄重的 (zhuāngzhòng de); 不性感的 (bú xìnggǎn de)


 * Danish: blufærdig, anstændig,  sømmelig,  ærbar
 * Greek:
 * Russian: благопристойный,

Adjective

 * 1) modest