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modest

/ˈmɒdɪst/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈmɒdɪst/
modest
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

mo - dest -> modest

Myanmar meaning

(adj) တော်ရုံသင့်ရုံရှိ

Full entry

modest /'mɒdÇst / adj

၁။ (က) တော်ရုံသင့်ရုံရှိသော။ အသင့်အတင့် ဖြစ်သော။ live on a modest income ❍ make very modest demands ❍ a modest improvement/ success/ increase. (ခ) သင့်ရုံ။ တော်ရုံ။ live in a modest little house.
၂။ (က) ~ (about sth) (approv ) မကြွားဝါသော။ မဝင့်ဝါသော။ မပလွှားသော။ ရိုးရိုးကုပ်ကုပ် နေသော။ be modest about one's achievements ❍ a quiet and modest man.
(ခ) မဝံ့မရဲသော။ a modest smile/ suggestion.
၃။ ဣနြေ္ဒရသော။ ရိုးရိုးယဉ်ယဉ်ဖြစ်သော။
a modest dress/ neckline.
❏ modestly adv ရိုးရိုးကုပ်ကုပ်။ ရိုးရိုးယဉ်ယဉ်။ ရိုးရိုး။ be modestly dressed ❍ ‘It's not as good a photo as yours,’ she said modestly.
❏ modesty /'mɒdǝsti / n [U] (usu approv ) သင့်ရုံမျှ။ ဣနြေ္ဒသမ္ပတ္တိ။ the modesty of his political aspirations ❍ He always detested false (ie pretended) modesty.

More examples
  • The engine has a very modest oil consumption.
  • His income was modest compared with that of other chief executives.
  • There has been a modest increase in sales.
  • She has had some modest success with her short stories.
  • They grew up in a relatively modest house in New Jersey.
  • Peter is genuinely modest about his achievements.
Synonyms
self-effacing, unassuming, unpretentious, diffident, humble, reserved, meek, reticent, unpresumptuous, acceptable, average, bashful, blushing, chaste, cheap, coy, demure, discreet, dry, economical, fair, inelaborate, inexpensive, limited, low, lowly, middling, moderate, natural, nice, ordinary, plain, proper, prudent, quiet, reasonable, resigned, restrained, retiring, seemly, self-conscious, sheepish, shy, silent, simple, small, temperate, timid, token, unadorned, unaffected, unassertive, unassured, unboastful, uncertain, unembellished, unembroidered, unexceptional, unexcessive, unextravagant, unextreme, unobtrusive, unornamented, unostentatious, unpresuming, unpretending, unradical, unstudied, unsure, withdrawing
Antonyms
arrogant, assured, bold, brave, complex, complicated, conceited, courageous, egotistical, excessive, expensive, extraordinary, immodest, intricate, ostentatious, outrageous, overbearing, presumptuous, proud, self-confident, showy, unabashed, unashamed, unlimited, unreasonable
Cross references
self-effacingunassumingunpretentiousdiffidenthumblereservedmeekreticentunpresumptuousacceptableaveragebashfulblushingchastecheapcoydemurediscreetdryeconomicalfairinelaborateinexpensivelimitedlowlowlymiddlingmoderate
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