Synonyms:
modest
Meaning: marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"
Synonyms:
modest, small
Meaning: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
Synonyms:
modest
Meaning: free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
Usage examples
"How modest we have become!
"Do not be so modest, my boy!
I go where glory or a modest competence waits me.
'It is my own modest fashion of attending divine service.
Thus the modest and virtuous Lady Aoi passed away forever.
This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France.
"A copy of verses," corrected Carolyn, with a modest catch in her breath.
With the close of my school-days at Rivermouth this modest chronicle ends.
But here it was no longer some isolated bush or a modest grove of low timber.
Some discredit also would have been cast upon those who live in moderate and modest ways.