Adjective

• S: (adj) modest (marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself) "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"
• S: (adj) modest, small (not large but sufficient in size or amount) "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
• S: (adj) modest (free from pomp or affectation) "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
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• W: (adj) pretentious [Indirect via unpretentious] (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction) "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
• S: (adj) modest (not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance) "a modest neckline in her dress covered her up to her collarbone"
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• S: (n) modesty, modestness (freedom from vanity or conceit)
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• S: (adj) humble, low, lowly, modest, small (low or inferior in station or quality) "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
• S: (adj) meek, mild, modest (humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness) "meek and self-effacing"
• S: (adj) minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized (relatively moderate, limited, or small) "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"