MODEST — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
modest
Free from ostentation or pretension.
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- The restrained elegance of the room.
Limited in size or scope.
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- A small business.
- A newspaper with a modest circulation.
- Small-scale plans.
- A pocket-size country.
Not large but sufficient in size or amount.
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- A modest salary.
- Modest inflation.
- Helped in my own small way.
Not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance.
Marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself.
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- A modest apartment.
- Too modest to wear his medals.
Free from pomp or affectation.
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- Comfortable but modest cottages.
- A simple rectangular brick building.
- A simple man with simple tastes.
Humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness.
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- Meek and self-effacing.
Low or inferior in station or quality.
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- A humble cottage.
- A lowly parish priest.
- A modest man of the people.
- Small beginnings.
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