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Textual thesaurus for "modest"

(adj) minor, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale

limited in size or scope

a small business; a newspaper with a modest circulation; small-scale plans; a pocket-size country


(adj) small

not large but sufficient in size or amount

a modest salary; modest inflation; helped in my own small way


(adj) meek, mild

humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

meek and self-effacing


(adj) humble, small, low, lowly

low or inferior in station or quality

a humble cottage; a lowly parish priest; a modest man of the people; small beginnings