modesty
noun/ˈmɒd.ə.sti/
Etymology
Definitions
The quality of being modest
The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Moderate behaviour
Moderate behaviour; reserve.
Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.
The neighborhood
- antonymimpudenceantonym(s) of “moderate behaviour”
- antonymextravaganceantonym(s) of “moderate behaviour”
- antonymarroganceantonym(s) of “quality of being modest”
- antonymimmodesty
- neighbormodestly
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for modesty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA