Thesaurus
modest
Synonyms and Antonyms of modest
- he was awarded a modest pension when he retired
- tended to wear more modest swimsuits than the thong-clad guests at the resort
- a modest winner who said a quick thank-you and promptly left the stage
boon, clubbable (also clubable), companionable, convivial, gregarious, sociable, social
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest, outgoing
- appealingly modest about her success in the fashion industry
acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yielding
ingenuous, naive (or naïve), plain, simple, unaffected
bashful, diffident, introverted, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, sheepish, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive
aw-shucks, self-deprecating, self-deprecatory, self-effacing
aggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucy
cocksure, cocky, confident, hubristic, overconfident, self-confident
egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), narcissistic, prideful, self-affected, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-engrossed, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed
boastful, bombastic, braggy, swaggering, vain, vainglorious
condescending, disdainful, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, overbearing, patronizing, pontificating
flamboyant, ostentatious, showy
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest, outgoing, uninhibited, unreserved
arrogant, bumptious, chesty, conceited, egotistic (or egotistical), fastuous, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
Synonym Discussion of modest
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- shy with strangers
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- a bashful boy out on his first date
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- felt diffident about raising an objection
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- modest about her success
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- put off by her coy manner
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