As George Bush has amply demonstrated, being president of the U.S. requires only a modicum of intelligence.
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Modicum
//ˈmɒdɪkəm//
Synonyms for "modicum" (217 found)
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Related words (108)
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71 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَزْر noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Bulgarian
2 entries- малко количество noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- минимално количество noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Catalan
4 entries- borrall noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- bri noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- engruna noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- mica noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Chinese
1 entries- 少量 noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 少量 noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 少量 noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Czech
3 entries- trocha noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- troška noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- špetka noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Dutch
2 entries- beetje noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- weinigje noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Faroese
1 entries- lítiô sindur noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Finnish
4 entries- hippu noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- hiukka noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- hiven noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- rahtu noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
French
3 entries- minimum noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- modicum noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- montant modique noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
German
4 entries- Bisschen noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- Hauch noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- Mindestmaß noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- Spur noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 少量 noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Hungarian
4 entries- cseppnyi noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- egy csepp/csöpp noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- egy kevés noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- kevéske noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Italian
1 entries- un po' di noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Japanese
2 entries- ちょっぴり noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- 少量 noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Latin
1 entries- modicum noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Māori
3 entries- kanhe noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- takutakunga noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- taunga noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آوج noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- پارچه noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Polish
3 entries- krzta noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- krztyna noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- odrobina noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Portuguese
4 entries- bocadinho noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- mínimo noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- pingo noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- um pouco de noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Romanian
1 entries- minimum noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Russian
3 entries- ма́лость noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- ничтожно коли́чество noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- чу́точка noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Spanish
4 entries- grisma noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- menudencia noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- mirringa noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- mirrusca noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Swahili
1 entries- kiasi noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Swedish
2 entries- gnutta noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
- uns noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Turkish
1 entries- nebze noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Welsh
1 entries- mymryn noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Yiddish
1 entries- שפּור noun (modest, small, or trifling amount)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Tom doesn't even have a modicum of common sense.
Source: tatoeba (9762498)
Could you please show at least a modicum of decency while the Jacksons are here?
Source: tatoeba (9762532)
Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan, he conceded to follow the others.
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