noun [U]
1 the fact of not talking much about your abilities or possessions:
He accepted the award with characteristic modesty. * I hate false (= pretended) modesty.
2 the action of behaving or dressing so that you do not show your body or attract sexual attention
3 the state of being not very large, expensive, important, etc:
They tried to disguise the modesty of their achievements.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for modesty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does modesty appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — modesty appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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