English Explanatory Dictionary

modestly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. In a modest manner; with humility.
  2. To a small degree.

Word forms

modestly more modestly most modestly

Etymology

From modest + -ly.

Synonyms

chastely humbly meekly becomingly continently correctly decently decorously deservingly dutifully duteously meritoriously modestly morally nobly rightly right-mindedly righteously virtuously worthily mildly slightly somewhat a bit a little a little bit a mite a smidgen a smidgeon a tad a touch a trifle barely closely faintly hardly imperceptibly just kinda kinda sorta kind of low-key marginally nearly only just scarcely sorta sorta kinda sort of
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