Word "MODEST" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
not large but sufficient in size or amount
Synonyms:
small
Examples:
a modest salary
modest inflation

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
relatively moderate, limited, or small
Synonyms:
minor, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale
Examples:
a newspaper with a modest circulation

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
low or inferior in station or quality
Synonyms:
humble, low, lowly, small
Examples:
a modest man of the people

Crossword Clues for MODEST

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Unassuming in the estimation of one's own abilities (6)
Humble The Telegraph Quick 10 Jun 2025
Unpretentious style by a good man (6)
Most of the French going in for retiring (6)
Fashions at the time being decorous (6)
Humble, shy
Humble Mahatma's teachings chiefly inspired poems (6)
Relatively limited (of an amount) (6)
Self-effacing Mirror Quick 23 Mar 2025
Unassuming fashion on the way Mirror Cryptic 23 Mar 2025
Humble method saving time initially The Times Quick Cryptic 18 Mar 2025
Most of French inside are humble (6)
Ordinary demos mixed by vocalist in the end (6)
Shy and reserved (6)
Unassuming The Sun Two Speed 10 Feb 2025
Two ways to be humble The Sun Two Speed 10 Feb 2025
Tom's upset about Des being merely middling (6)
A __, Jonathan Swift's way of Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country? (6,8) The Guardian Weekend 08 Feb 2025
Of the French, most, on the outside, are unassuming (6)
Unassuming mate regularly penning poetic pieces (6)
Reserved, self-effacing (6)
Bashful, unpretentious
Humble, ... beginnings
Humble Mirror Tea Time 16 Dec 2024
Before the end of August, fashions will be unpretentious (6)
Humble and virtuous person, follower of fashion The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Nov 2024
Unobtrusive manner shown by a holy man (6)
Humble Newsday 19 Nov 2024
Simple or homely (6)
Humble Eugene Sheffer 16 Nov 2024
First sign of table manners, sitting higher, being demure The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Nov 2024
Humble The Times Concise 07 Nov 2024
Humble, bashful (6)
Most see Ed as being unassuming
Self-effacing Commuter 17 Oct 2024
Unassuming street after a certain style (6)
A good man, after a fashion, is unassuming (6)
Ed's disturbed Tom and he's so unassuming, too!
A saint enjoys fashion but remains unassuming
Unpretentious Puzzler Backwords 06 Sep 2024
Unobtrusive fashion seen on the street (6)
Current styles essentially muted and unpretentious (6)
Ted's Medical Officer can be so unassuming
Humble USA Today 17 Aug 2024
Unassuming Thomas Joseph 15 Aug 2024
Being humble is unexceptional (6)
Reserved, simple The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 16 Jul 2024
Humble Eugene Sheffer 13 Jul 2024
The majority are about half dead and pretty small (6)
Humble a good man, after a fashion (6)
Simple fashion on the way (6)
Free from vanity (6) Puzzler 25 Jun 2024
Fashions at tea are so unassuming
My outward demeanour exudes simple taste. Initially unassuming, that's me (6)
Humble The Telegraph Quick 20 Jun 2024
Fashion it for a saint in an unassuming way
Unassuming manner, little saint! (6)
Self-effacing Wall Street Journal 03 Jun 2024
Unassuming in two ways? (6) The Guardian Cryptic 21 May 2024
Not inclined to boast Commuter 16 May 2024
Unassuming Commuter 15 May 2024
Initially Mark Twain absorbed epic poems to become discreet (6)
Not excessive (6) The Guardian Quick 08 May 2024
Humble Eugene Sheffer 04 May 2024
Ted's Medical Officer finds him unassuming
Free from pomp or affectation
It's considered fashionable for a saint to be unassuming
Nearly all of them admit empty domicile is quite humble
Russian composer of works including Pictures At An Exhibition, _ Mussorgsky (6)
Unassuming street fronted by a certain style (6)
Humble a good person, after a fashion
Not showy LA Times Daily 18 Mar 2024
Simple fashion show's beginning on time
Tom's wrong about Des being unassuming
Humble Mr Mussorgsky? (6)
Simple odes buried in small mountain (6)
Part of Alamo destruction is unpretentious (6)
Unpretentious poems on time by Miles (6)
Approach street unpretentious in appearance (6)
Unassuming, self-effacing (6)
Tom's disturbed Ed by being so unassuming
Humble poetic works set in Montana (6)
Ed is attracted by Tom's unassuming nature
Unpretentious fashions by team leader (6) Puzzler Cryptic 01 Nov 2023
Humble Newsday 31 Oct 2023
Not boastful Newsday 02 Oct 2023
Not given to boasting Wall Street Journal 16 Sep 2023
Small; humble The Telegraph Quick 10 Sep 2023
Self-effacing or humble, say
Unassuming Thomas Joseph 08 Jun 2023
Unassuming Thomas Joseph 25 May 2023
Humble Eugene Sheffer 07 Feb 2023
Inexpensive fashion seen on street The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Feb 2023
___ Mouse, "Float On" band whose name is inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel "The Mark on the Wall"
Demure Premier Sunday 04 Dec 2022
Unassuming Thomas Joseph 03 Dec 2022
Unlikely to boast Universal 18 Oct 2022
Humble The Telegraph Quick 01 Sep 2022
Humble The Telegraph Quick 09 Aug 2022
Humble The Telegraph Quick 17 May 2022
Unassuming ways associated with tour's leader The Telegraph Cryptic 16 May 2022
Humble, not pretentious or showy Irish Times Simplex 12 May 2022
Unassuming; limited The Times Concise 06 May 2022
Humble times - Down not getting win Irish Times Crosaire 21 Apr 2022
Humble, unassuming Irish Times Simplex 19 Apr 2022
Humble, not pretentious or showy Irish Times Simplex 29 Mar 2022
Unpretentious fashion, split skirts
Demote oldest pastor, essentially for being shy
Demote oldest pastor, essentially for being shy The Guardian Quiptic 14 Feb 2022
Nothing to brag about Newsday 28 Jan 2022
Like one playing down their accomplishments The Washington Post Sunday 09 Jan 2022
Humble Methodists don't have this Irish Times Crosaire 03 Jan 2022
Humble in more than one way The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Dec 2021
Humble Methodists don't have this Irish Times Crosaire 16 Nov 2021
Humble, unassuming Irish Times Simplex 27 Aug 2021
Trendy set mysteriously unlikely to brag Irish Times Crosaire 17 Aug 2021
Humble The Telegraph Quick 10 Aug 2021
Simple course — tacos for starters
Self-effacing USA Today 12 Jun 2021
Low-key New York Times 29 May 2021
Unassuming Thomas Joseph 01 Apr 2021
Not boastful USA Today 28 Mar 2021
Unlikely to brag Universal 12 Mar 2021
Trendy set mysteriously unlikely to brag Irish Times Crosaire 12 Mar 2021
Simple poem in manuscript ending in basket
Not boastful Newsday 21 Feb 2021
Humble, unassuming Irish Times Simplex 28 Dec 2020
Simple ways!
Some Parisian in test shown to be of limited ability The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Nov 2020
Unassuming The Telegraph Quick 25 Oct 2020
Unassuming The Sun Two Speed 05 Aug 2020
Extremely divine coming in most humble The Sun Two Speed 05 Aug 2020
Far from boastful USA Today 24 Jun 2020
Humble Eugene Sheffer 03 Jun 2020
Plain or flash coat for detective on street?
Way holy person is unassuming The Telegraph Cryptic 07 May 2020
Not the bragging type Family Time 29 Mar 2020
Demure The Telegraph Quick 05 Mar 2020
Humble manner of saint
How humblebraggers try to be Universal 16 Aug 2019
Unlike a braggart The Washington Post Sunday 02 Jun 2019
Humble Wordsworth works in Montana Irish Times Crosaire 14 May 2019
Unassuming, diffident Irish Times Simplex 25 Apr 2019
Unpretentious metre: poem is on the way
Small in two ways?
Retiring Thomas Joseph 04 Apr 2019
Humble, not pretentious or showy Irish Times Simplex 23 Mar 2019
Unassuming, humble Irish Times Simplex 26 Feb 2019
Humble The Telegraph Quick 24 Feb 2019
Two ways to be self-effacing The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Feb 2019
Inexpensive fashion is on the way The Telegraph Toughie 24 Jan 2019
How humblebraggers try to be
Disinclined to brag The Washington Post 12 Dec 2018
Disinclined to brag LA Times Daily 12 Dec 2018
Decent poems in Montana The Telegraph Toughie 04 Dec 2018
Unassuming ways associated with leader of team
Some ? la mode structure that's not pretentious Irish Times Crosaire 10 Oct 2018
. Humble manner of saint
Far from extravagant New York Times 09 Jul 2018
Two ways to be humble The Sun Two Speed 02 Jul 2018
Two ways to be demure
. Ordinary man's tribute extremely short
Unboastful Premier Sunday 21 Jan 2018
Far from extravagant
Disinclined to brag
Two ways to be humble The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Dec 2017
Hardly boastful USA Today 10 Sep 2017
Humble poem breaks woman's sympathetic heart
Not at all boastful Family Time 05 Jun 2017
Self-effacing The Washington Post 22 May 2017
Self-effacing LA Times Daily 22 May 2017
Simple ways to find temperature
Around the outskirts of Dundee, not all is quiet
Not likely to brag Universal 08 Jan 2017
Hardly boastful
Self-effacing
Unassuming Premier Sunday 01 Jan 2017
Not likely to brag
Reserved for Glen leaving lodgements Irish Times Crosaire 22 Dec 2016
Hardly extravagant The Chronicle of Higher Education 08 Jul 2016
Way, way humble
Fair to middling The Washington Post 02 Apr 2016
Unassuming The Times Concise 27 Feb 2016
Hardly extravagant
Opposite of vain USA Today 25 Nov 2015
Far from boastful Newsday 27 Sep 2015
Not prone to bragging Eugene Sheffer 03 Aug 2015
Unassuming style on street
Humble way followed by saint The Telegraph Cryptic 29 May 2015
Unassuming style on street
Disinclined to brag Eugene Sheffer 17 Apr 2015
Unassuming Eugene Sheffer 20 Mar 2015
Opposite of vain
Far from boastful
Time to follow fashions avoiding indecency
Unassuming
Humble composer reinterpreted by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, familiarly (6)
Opposite of vain
Hardly boastful
Not at all vain
Unlike a showboat
Self-effacing
Unpretentious
Not boastful
Not overdone
Demure
Not pretentious
Humble
Not apt to crow
Far from grand
Unostentatious
Not apt to crow
Not at all boastful
Unassuming
Unassuming
Not at all boastful
Self-effacing
Hardly boastful
Not pretentious
Not boastful
Self-effacing
Limited in amount
Understated
Demure
Soft-spoken
Unpretentious
Far from vain
Not at all vain
Not pretentious
Far from showy
Far from showy
Not showy
Not overdone
Not given to self-promotion
Retiring
Not pretentious
Humble
Not at all vain
Demure
Not at all vain
Not overwhelming
Unostentatious
Fair to middling
Unostentatious
Medium-priced
Hardly grand
Unassuming
Not liable to crow
Not boastful
Unpretentious
Far from glitzy
Hardly given to exhibitionism
Composer Moussorgsky
Unassuming
Reserved; retiring
Retiring
Humble
Unpretentious
Unassuming
Swift's "A ___ Proposal . . . "
Demure
Not given to bravado
Not extreme
Far from forward
Virtuous
Unassuming.
Not ostentatious.
Limited in amount.
Simple.
Not vain.
Reserved.
Retiring as a violet.
Retiring.
Not boastful.
Not extreme.
Not excessive.
Unpretentious.
Free from vanity.
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