What is another word for modest?
901 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mˈɒdəst], [ mˈɒdəst], [ m_ˈɒ_d_ə_s_t]
Modest is an adjective that describes someone or something that has a humble or unassuming nature. However, there are many other words that can be used in place of modest, including unpretentious, humble, self-effacing, meek, low-key, and down-to-earth. Unpretentious is used to describe someone who is simple and modest and doesn't try to impress others with their wealth or status, while humble refers to a person who is not proud or boastful. Self-effacing is used to describe someone who is modest and downplays their own abilities, while meek refers to someone who is submissive or passive. Low-key refers to someone who is understated and doesn't attract attention to themselves, while down-to-earth describes someone who is practical and unpretentious.
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Similar words for modest:
- all (adjective)
- artless (adjective)
- backward (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- bashful (adjective)
- careless (adjective)
- chaste (adjective)
- clean (adjective)
- continent (adjective)
- decent (adjective)
- demure (adjective)
- diffident (adjective)
- distant (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- effeminate (adjective)
- fair to middling (adjective)
- folksy (adjective)
- garden-variety (adjective)
- homely (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- ignoble (adjective)
- immaculate (adjective)
- inconspicuous (adjective)
- inexpensive (adjective)
- introverted (adjective)
- ladylike (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- limited, ordinary (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- lowly (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- mediocre (adjective)
- meek (adjective)
- middle-of-the-road (adjective)
- middling (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- modest (adjective)
- moral (adjective)
- ordinary (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- plain (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- proper (adjective)
- pure (adjective)
- quiet (adjective)
- reasonable (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- respectable (adjective)
- retiring (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- shrinking (adjective)
- shy (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- spare (adjective)
- spotless (adjective)
- temperate (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- unadorned (adjective)
- unaffected (adjective)
- unassuming (adjective)
- unblemished (adjective)
- unconspicuous (adjective)
- undistinguished (adjective)
- unexceptional (adjective)
- unimposing (adjective)
- unnoticeable (adjective)
- unobtrusive (adjective)
- unpretentious (adjective)
- unwashed (adjective)
- vanilla (adjective)
- virgin/virginal (adjective)
- coy (noun)
- discreet (noun)
- limited (noun)
- minor (noun)
- modest (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- plain (noun)
- humble (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- austere
- expendable
- harsh
- plain
Synonyms for Modest:
adj.
• all (adjective) • artless (adjective) • backward (adjective)- in-disposed,
- more uneager,
- un willing,
- un-eager,
- in disposed,
- un-willing,
- dis-inclined,
- dis inclined,
- most uneager,
- un eager.
- un-embellished,
- meager,
- most unornamented,
- un-ornamented,
- more unornamented,
- un ornamented,
- un embellished.
- most recoiling,
- un assertive,
- most overmodest,
- more nervous,
- selfeffacing,
- most blushful,
- self conscious,
- self-conscious,
- most unassertive,
- timorous,
- more recoiling,
- more verecund,
- re-coiling,
- un-assertive,
- most verecund,
- selfconscious,
- self effacing,
- over modest,
- re coiling,
- Verecund,
- more unassertive,
- more overmodest,
- more blushful.
- more monogamous,
- neater,
- more intemerate,
- prudish,
- most monogamous,
- re-fined,
- un-sullied,
- unwed,
- impotent,
- re strained,
- more uncontaminated,
- in experienced,
- un defiled,
- in nocent,
- in-experienced,
- re fined,
- un-stained,
- most uncontaminated,
- un stained,
- in-nocent,
- most intemerate,
- un sullied,
- un-contaminated,
- un contaminated,
- un-wed,
- un wed,
- un-defiled,
- re-strained.
- on and up,
- on the up,
- un-tarnished,
- straight arrow,
- on the and up,
- un tarnished,
- on up,
- on the up and up,
- be-coming,
- be-fitting,
- ethical,
- on the up up,
- de cent,
- de-cent,
- on up up.
- more rabbity,
- with drawn,
- more flinching,
- in securer,
- un-sure,
- more blenching,
- un poised,
- Unpoised,
- more unpoised,
- dis trustful,
- in-secure,
- in-securest,
- most unpoised,
- with-drawn,
- most blenching,
- un-poised,
- un sure,
- most flinching,
- most rabbity,
- dis-trustful,
- in-securer,
- in securest,
- in secure.
- un-concerned,
- put airs,
- un-friendly,
- un-friendliest,
- re-mote,
- un concerned,
- most standoff,
- in sociable,
- more uncompanionable,
- un friendliest,
- un-approachable,
- un-companionable,
- stuckup,
- un friendlier,
- more insociable,
- un sociable,
- more standoff,
- un-sociable,
- in-sociable,
- un-friendlier,
- most uncompanionable,
- Insociable,
- un approachable,
- on ice,
- un companionable,
- up pity,
- up-pity,
- unapproachable,
- most insociable.
- low tariff,
- cut rate,
- dog cheap,
- quite a buy,
- stealest,
- cost nothing,
- marked down,
- cost next to nothing,
- low priced,
- bought for song,
- quite buy,
- cost next nothing,
- lowpriced,
- on sale,
- dime dozen,
- bought for a song,
- dirt cheap.
- selfless,
- apologetic,
- abashed,
- submissive,
- mild,
- self-effacing,
- unambitious,
- low-ranking,
- contrite,
- proletarian,
- sheepish,
- trivial,
- unassuming,
- Low-born,
- menial,
- reverential,
- plebeian,
- unpretentious,
- supplicatory.
- de graded,
- dis-graceful,
- dis honorable,
- most peasant,
- more peasant,
- de-graded,
- de generate,
- de-generate,
- in famous,
- dis-honorable,
- scurvier,
- dis graceful,
- scurviest.
- more unpolluted,
- in-corrupt,
- un polluted,
- most unpolluted,
- more incorrupt,
- un-polluted,
- most incorrupt,
- in corrupt.
- more dirtcheap,
- dirtcheap,
- more dirt-cheap,
- most dirtcheap,
- most cut-rate,
- more halfprice,
- more cutrate,
- more half price,
- lowcost,
- buyest,
- most dirt-cheap,
- more budget,
- most cutrate,
- halfprice,
- most half price,
- most cut rate,
- most bargain,
- low cost,
- more dirt cheap,
- more bargain,
- in-expensive,
- more cut-rate,
- most half-price,
- more half-price,
- most dirt cheap,
- cutrate,
- more cut rate,
- for song,
- in expensive,
- most budget,
- most halfprice.
- not many,
- shoestring,
- inconsiderable,
- fragmentary,
- not rich,
- hardly any,
- wee,
- tiny,
- not much,
- lightest,
- hardly enough.
- unexcessive,
- unstudied,
- middling,
- fair,
- unextravagant,
- unradical,
- Unembroidered,
- average,
- natural,
- unadorned,
- unexceptional,
- unextreme,
- unostentatious,
- unembellished.
- re-signed,
- more zero,
- weak kneed,
- un-resisting,
- most longanimous,
- most unresisting,
- more weak-kneed,
- more longanimous,
- more unresisting,
- most weak-kneed,
- most zero,
- re signed,
- most milquetoast,
- most weak kneed,
- more nothing,
- most weakkneed,
- more pabulum,
- weakkneed,
- more milquetoast,
- un resisting,
- more weakkneed,
- long suffering,
- most nothing,
- longsuffering,
- most pabulum,
- wishy washy,
- wishywashy,
- weak-kneed,
- more weak kneed.
- more compromising,
- more disciplined,
- non committal,
- non partisan,
- mid way,
- on fence,
- in-different,
- in different,
- most compromising,
- most disciplined.
- true-blue,
- more moralistic,
- in-corruptible,
- up-standing,
- salt the earth,
- highminded,
- meritorious,
- high minded,
- salt earth,
- most moralistic,
- trueblue,
- in corruptible,
- up standing.
- most white bread,
- more white-bread,
- un inspired,
- more unmemorable,
- unnoteworthy,
- stereo typed,
- more white bread,
- un eventful,
- more unnoteworthy,
- most garden,
- most workaday,
- un-memorable,
- un-noteworthy,
- more garden,
- un noteworthy,
- most characterless,
- most unnoteworthy,
- un memorable,
- more whitebread,
- un-inspired,
- un-eventful,
- most whitebread,
- most unmemorable,
- most white-bread,
- more workaday.
- immaculate,
- free spirited,
- temperate,
- incorrupt,
- scraggy,
- poor,
- ignoble,
- put on airs,
- white bread,
- Intemerate,
- homely,
- clean,
- straight shooting,
- be coming,
- garden-variety,
- backward,
- lowly,
- overmodest,
- unspoilt,
- simple,
- undistinguished,
- no great shakes,
- eremitic,
- self-controlled,
- cut and dried,
- respectable,
- meek,
- unblemished,
- half-price,
- whitebread,
- moralistic,
- fairish,
- low,
- reserved,
- Self-restrained,
- low key,
- non-committal,
- nongregarious,
- reasonable,
- unaffected,
- cut-rate,
- Unpresumptuous,
- scraggiest,
- dry,
- disciplined,
- unassured,
- decent,
- light,
- diffident,
- unobtrusive,
- bashful,
- small,
- salt of earth,
- moderate,
- unresisting,
- uneager,
- rabbity,
- slight,
- inexpensive,
- salt of the earth,
- moral,
- laid back,
- economical,
- scurvy,
- fair to middling,
- be fitting,
- for a song,
- timid,
- distant,
- ladylike,
- quiet,
- mean,
- unmemorable,
- retiring,
- uncontaminated,
- continent,
- not excessive,
- homelike,
- bare,
- workaday,
- free-spirited,
- popularly priced,
- white-bread,
- inconspicuous,
- Unaffable,
- Uncompanionable,
- dirt-cheap,
- run of the mill,
- spotless,
- non-partisan,
- over-modest,
- Unartificial,
- spare,
- garden variety,
- unornamented,
- Unbeautified,
- P,
- blushful,
- uncluttered,
- your basic,
- on up and up,
- pure,
- demure,
- unimposing,
- characterless,
- stripped down,
- not forward,
- easy going,
- vanilla,
- unexpansive,
- real steal,
- uninjured,
- chaste,
- shy,
- untapped,
- non-gregarious,
- unassertive,
- half price,
- sticker,
- mid-way,
- uncomplex,
- un-artificial,
- stuck up,
- unsocial,
- unpolluted,
- monogamous,
- introverted,
- uneffusive,
- longanimous,
- ordinary,
- virginal,
- affordable,
- easy-going,
- real buy.
- Kidder,
- Unblighted,
- inviolate,
- Unprofaned,
- wet behind ears,
- lily white,
- unspotted,
- maidenly,
- babe in woods,
- wide-eyed,
- pure as driven snow.
- mis anthropic,
- re-served,
- re served,
- un-responsive,
- un demonstrative,
- more eremitic,
- self-contained,
- mis-anthropic,
- selfcontained,
- self contained,
- un responsive,
- most eremitic,
- un-demonstrative.
- un affable,
- re tiring,
- more unaffable,
- more nongregarious,
- un expansive,
- un-expansive,
- re-tiring,
- recessive,
- more unexpansive,
- most nongregarious,
- most unexpansive,
- un-affable,
- non gregarious,
- most unaffable.
- uncompounded,
- unmixed,
- not complex,
- open and shut,
- uncombined,
- undecorated,
- unfussy,
- unblended,
- uncomplicated,
- unelaborate,
- pure and simple,
- unalloyed.
- pocket,
- delicate,
- beggarly,
- paltry,
- compact,
- scrawny,
- itty-bitty,
- bantam,
- trifling,
- scanty,
- slim,
- short,
- minute,
- miserly,
- nugatory,
- teeny-weeny,
- miniature,
- ungenerous,
- Toyer,
- runty,
- deficient,
- puny,
- dwarfish,
- petite,
- teensy,
- little,
- teeny,
- mini,
- negligible,
- stingy,
- picayune,
- pint-sized,
- toy,
- sparing,
- microscopic,
- piddling,
- smallish,
- weeny,
- bitty,
- shrimper,
- baby,
- shrimp,
- scant,
- minimal,
- under-sized,
- diminutive.
- eventempered,
- most unimpassioned,
- most checked,
- unimpassioned,
- un-impassioned,
- even tempered,
- more checked,
- more unimpassioned,
- un impassioned.
- more unnerved,
- co wed,
- most browbeaten,
- most bullied,
- most cowed,
- most cowering,
- more badgered,
- most trembling,
- unnerved,
- un-nerved,
- most unnerved,
- most daunted,
- un nerved,
- most badgered,
- having cold feet,
- more trembling,
- more bullied,
- more browbeaten,
- more daunted,
- more cowering,
- co-wed,
- more cowed.
- un artificial,
- un schooled,
- more unspoilt,
- more unartificial,
- un-spoilt,
- un-affected,
- most unspoilt,
- most unartificial,
- un spoilt,
- un affected,
- un-schooled.
- un injured,
- un-hurt,
- in-tact,
- un-marked,
- un blemished,
- un-marred,
- unhurt,
- un-blemished,
- un flawed,
- un marked,
- in tact,
- un damaged,
- most uninjured,
- un marred,
- un-injured,
- more uninjured,
- un hurt,
- un impaired,
- un-flawed,
- un-impaired,
- un-damaged.
- un-distinguished,
- nothing special,
- nothing write home about,
- un-exciting,
- nothing to write home about,
- un exciting,
- un distinguished.
- most soft pedaled,
- more soft-pedaled,
- un obtrusive,
- most softpedaled,
- more softpedaled,
- un-obtrusive,
- most soft-pedaled,
- more soft pedaled.
- un pretentious,
- more unpresumptuous,
- un-complex,
- un-beautified,
- most easy going,
- most unbeautified,
- more unbeautified,
- laidback,
- more free-spirited,
- most unpresumptuous,
- un complex,
- un presumptuous,
- most free spirited,
- most uncomplex,
- more easy-going,
- un beautified,
- more free spirited,
- un-presumptuous,
- more easy going,
- un spoiled,
- more uncomplex,
- down home,
- most free-spirited,
- freespirited,
- most freespirited,
- un-pretentious,
- un-spoiled,
- unspoiled,
- more freespirited.
n.
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•
- brief,
- button-down,
- A-LINE,
- boot-cut,
- best,
- button-through,
- baggy,
- backless,
- casual,
- Clingy.
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- brownstone,
- burned-out,
- cavernous,
- colonial,
- beachfront,
- comfortable,
- baronial,
- appointed,
- carbuncle,
- carpeted.
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- inhibited,
- insecure,
- tentative,
- uncertain,
- ill at ease,
- unsure of yourself,
- big,
- attitude,
- lost,
- self-love.
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- edge.
- coy.
v.
• humble (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- lewd,
- deprecating,
- undemanding,
- nice,
- low-profile,
- bald.
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- wholesome.
How to use "Modest" in context?
Modesty is defined as a virtuous quality that fosters self-respect and enhances one's reputation. It is the opposite of vanity, which is the excessive concern with one's looks. Modesty is something that is embraced by a majority of the population, but is often overlooked or forgotten. It is not something that is easily visible, but it is definitely something that is important. Modesty is something that is learned and can be improved upon. While it is important to be aware of your own beauty, it is also important to be aware of what is considered modest. While some things may be considered modest, others may not.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
limited, meager, unassuming.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
modeste.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Adjective, superlative
weakest.
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Adjective
benign, cautious, centrist, decent, disappointing, discrete, gentle, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, insignificant, lenient, light, lowly, meagre, measured, moderated, narrow, negligible, proportionate, reasonable, reduced, restricted, reticent, scarce, shy, skinny, slow, small-scale, soft, sparse, straightforward, tentative, tenuous, tiny, trivial, unobtrusive, weak, moderate-income.
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Adjective, superlative
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Other Related
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Adjective
conservative, discreet, few, lightweight, low, low-key, marginal, mediocre, mild, minimal, poor, restrained, scant, short, simple, small, smallest, timid, modest-income.
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Proper noun, singular
small.
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Adjective
Homophones for Modest:
- midst, matched, mudcat, mid-august, mahdist, midget, mind-set, mad-dog weed, matchwood, methodist, mendacity, modesty, Mendicity, mindset, medicaid, medicate, medusoid, Mount Shasta, mot test, Mot Juste, modiste, medusa's head, matchweed, monotheist, midwest, manducate, mitigated, matchet, mutsuhito, Manduca Sexta, mitigate, Mideast.
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