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Modest

//ˈmɑdəst//

Synonyms for "modest" (244 found)

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Informal (36)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(7 words)

mean cool spare shy blank humble moral

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

low plain clean

Adj, adv, noun, slang(3 words)

cold medium middling

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, name, noun, phrase, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(7 words)

delicate ordinary shoddy stuffy decent elegant teachable

Adj, adv, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(3 words)

frigid offish infra dig

Adj, adv, det, noun, prep_phrase, pron, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, slang(1 words)

General use (208)

Adjective(10 words)

low small humble minor mild lowly meek small-scale pocket-sized pocket-size

Adj, name, verb(2 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(3 words)

fair small lower

Adj, name, noun, verb(6 words)

common poor minor junior prim coy

Adj, noun, verb(17 words)

token moderate subject budget remote limited subordinate becoming forbidding shrinking retiring namby-pamby standoff faltering hesitating boggling demurring

Adj, adv, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, name(2 words)

Adj, noun(21 words)

secondary inferior sensible vulgar silent olympian nominal respectable mediocre chilly servile lackluster puritanical stainless subaltern impersonal second string underprivileged third string inaccessible

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Adj, adv, noun(2 words)

indifferent economy

Noun, verb(3 words)

lour stickling withdrawing

Adj, verb(22 words)

detached subdued devoted restrained withdrawn guarded temperate reserved removed restricted committed ignoble dedicated demure disadvantaged introverted repressed constrained demeaning chilled

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understated self-sacrificing

Adjective(87 words)

homely reasonable chaste impassive insipid vapid distant scrupulous tedious immaculate reluctant spotless unassuming frugal bashful disinterested discreet wishy-washy uncongenial decorous

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Adj, adv, prep(1 words)

Adj, adv, conj, det, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

Adj, adv(5 words)

lowly seemly tolerable lowest betwixt and between

Verb(4 words)

suppressed consecrated sacrificing self-immolating

namby pamby wishy washy of a sort in the shade second rank third rank self-abnegating low priced within means worth the money self-forgetful humble-looking humble-visaged self-neglectful self-neglecting self-renouncing self-unconscious unsparing of self

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

Prep_phrase(2 words)

of sorts of a kind

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