modest 的定义
- having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- free from ostentation or showy extravagance: a modest house.
- having or showing regard for the decencies of behavior, speech, dress, etc.; decent: a modest neckline on a dress.
- limited or moderate in amount, extent, etc.: a modest increase in salary.
modest 近义词
shy
modest 的近义词 36 个
- humble
- moderate
- prudent
- quiet
- simple
- unassuming
- bashful
- blushing
- chaste
- coy
- demure
- diffident
- discreet
- lowly
- meek
- nice
- proper
- reserved
- resigned
- reticent
- retiring
- seemly
- self-conscious
- self-effacing
- sheepish
- silent
- temperate
- timid
- unassertive
- unassured
- unboastful
- unobtrusive
- unpresuming
- unpretending
- unpretentious
- withdrawing
modest 的反义词 19 个
limited, ordinary
modest 的近义词 30 个
- humble
- inexpensive
- moderate
- reasonable
- simple
- small
- average
- cheap
- discreet
- dry
- economical
- fair
- inelaborate
- middling
- natural
- plain
- unadorned
- unaffected
- unembellished
- unembroidered
- unexceptional
- unexcessive
- unextravagant
- unextreme
- unobtrusive
- unornamented
- unostentatious
- unpretentious
- unradical
- unstudied
modest 的反义词 19 个
更多modest例句
- They say the need is by far the greatest among these modest-income families and the economic boost will be much larger if the money goes to lower-income families because they are likely to spend it right away.
- You would have made more money by using that money to buy a modest house, as the median American home has appreciated more than that over that timeframe.
- Not for the first time, bold climate plans require modest financial risks.
- Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona don’t seem inclined to support even modest filibuster reform, at least right now.
- On days when the surf is firing—or when I’m feeling more modest—it’s nice to have a reliable one-piece that I know will stay in place no matter how big the wave or wipeout.
- And there are other stories DuVernay could have told and still met her (relatively) modest budget of $20 million.
- How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?
- A modest crowd moved East on 110th Street in New York City on Sunday evening.
- It was sexy, silly, and—in those relatively modest times—sensational.
- I knew the Clintons had arrived at the White House with modest means.
- It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest.
- It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.
- Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.
- She seemed to imply that I was a modest soldier, and if there is a way to flatter a man it is to call him modest.
- Thank you, Griff, Jess heard herself saying to the younger Vandergriff, as he packed her modest order in the basket.