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How to pronounce modest in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms small
Derivation modestness


a modest salary.
modest inflation.
Type Words
Synonyms minor, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale


a newspaper with a modest circulation.
Type Words
Synonyms humble, low, lowly, small


a modest man of the people.
Type Words
Synonyms meek, mild
Type Words


comfortable but modest cottages.
Type Words
Derivation modestness


a modest apartment.
too modest to wear his medals.
Type Words
Derivation modestness


a modest neckline in her dress covered her up to her collarbone.

Examples of modest

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Pepsi Twist and berry-flavored Pepsi Blue have developed more modest followings.
From the businessweek.com
Attendance at the Dubai Desert Classic golf tourney in 2008 was a modest 61,964.
From the businessweek.com
There are some modest signs of a return to rationality and scientific integrity.
From the forbes.com
Accretion from the deal is modest, too, at only about 1% a year, Anderson wrote.
From the forbes.com
This step put the slumlords out of business, and started a modest property boom.
From the economist.com
He poured his life savings into a modest condo and faithfully paid the mortgage.
From the abcnews.go.com
Given the modest proportions of today's smartphones, interactions can be fiddly.
From the newscientist.com
So they may yet have a modest future as a trade show and private print producer.
From the techcrunch.com
If they get a modest rise in sales then the media reports the company is doomed.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"
  • Not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
  • Free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
  • Not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
  • Humble: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
  • Meek: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
  • Minor: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
  • (modestly) with modesty; in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'"
  • Modest is a free, open source, email client developed by Nokia's maemo project. Small and lightweight, it is intended for use on hardware with u201Cmodestu201D resources, in particular Nokia's N800 and N810 Internet Tablets running Internet Tablet OS 2008, as well as the N900 mobile phone running Maemo. Modest is based on the lightweight Tinymail email framework.