modest
/ˈmɒdɪst/
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mo - dest -> modest
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.
- 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.
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