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modest

English

  1. 🔊 not large but sufficient in size or amount
    “a modest salary”
  2. 🔊 not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
    “a modest neckline in her dress covered her up to her collarbone”
  3. 🔊 marked by simplicity
    “a modest apartment”
  4. 🔊 free from pomp or affectation
    “comfortable but modest cottages”
  5. 🔊 relatively moderate, limited, or small
    “a small business”
  6. 🔊 humble in spirit or manner
    “meek and self-effacing”
  7. 🔊 low or inferior in station or quality
    “a humble cottage”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 discreto modest
  2. 🔊 pacato modest
  3. 🔊 pudoroso modest, humble, chaste
  4. 🔊 púdico modest, humble, chaste
  5. 🔊 modesto modest, humble, unpretentious
  6. 🔊 modesto modest, not extreme or excessive

Similar words

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