Modest

Definition

modest /'mɒdÇst / adj ၁။ (က) ေတာ္႐ံုသင့္႐ံုရိွေသာ။ အသင့္အတင့္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ live on a modest income ❍ make very modest demands ❍ a modest improvement/ success/ increase. (ခ) သင့္႐ံု။ ေတာ္႐ံု။ live in a modest little house. ၂။ (က) ~ (about sth) ( approv ) မႂကြားဝါေသာ။ မဝင့္ဝါေသာ။ မပလႊားေသာ။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးကုပ္ကုပ္ ေနေသာ။ be modest about one's achievements ❍ a quiet and modest man. (ခ) မဝံ့မရဲေသာ။ a modest smile/ suggestion. ၃။ ဣေႁႏၵရေသာ။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးယဥ္ယဥ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a modest dress/ neckline. ❏ modestly adv ႐ိုး႐ိုးကုပ္ကုပ္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးယဥ္ယဥ္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ be modestly dressed ❍ ‘It's not as good a photo as yours,’ she said modestly. ❏ modesty /'mɒdǝsti / n [U] ( usu approv ) သင့္႐ံုမွ်။ ဣေႁႏၵသမၸတၱိ။ the modesty of his political aspirations ❍ He always detested false (ie pretended) modesty.

Examples

1. The engine has a very modest oil consumption.
2. His income was modest compared with that of other chief executives.
3. There has been a modest increase in sales.
4. She has had some modest success with her short stories.
5. They grew up in a relatively modest house in New Jersey.
6. Peter is genuinely modest about his achievements.