modest

modest teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: Avoiding being sexually suggestive; Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble; Small, moderate in size
Her latest novel was a modest success.; {s} humble, unpretentious, unassuming; moderate; simple, limited; decent or appropriate in thought or dress; not provocatively dressed; {a} chaste, dissident, humble, moderate; free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes; You can describe a woman as modest when she avoids doing or wearing anything that might cause men to have sexual feelings towards her. You can also describe her clothes or behaviour as modest. Asian women are more modest and shy, yet they tend to have an inner force + modestly mod·est·ly She sat down cautiously on the red canvas cushions, knees modestly together; not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"; Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; said of a woman; humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"; free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room" not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals" free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes; You use modest to describe something such as an amount, rate, or improvement which is fairly small. Swiss unemployment rose to the still modest rate of 0.7% The democratic reforms have been modest + modestly mod·est·ly Britain's balance of payments improved modestly last month; A modest house or other building is not large or expensive. the modest home of a family who lived off the land A one-night stay in a modest hotel costs around £35; low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"; marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"; limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"; Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy; free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"; approval If you say that someone is modest, you approve of them because they do not talk much about their abilities or achievements. He's modest, as well as being a great player + modestly mod·est·ly `You really must be very good at what you do.' --- `I suppose I am,' Kate said modestly; not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"; not bragging or boasting about oneself or ones achievements, unpretentious, humble; free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room"; not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance; Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man; verecund
Modest Moussorgsky: Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-81) a Russian composer known for his opera Boris Gudonov and for his other works, including Pictures at an Exhibition and Songs and Dances of Death
Modest Mussorgsky: Moussorgsky, Modest. born March 21, 1839, Karevo, Russia died March 28, 1881, St. Petersburg Russian composer. Composing without training in his teens, he met several of the composers with whom he later made up The Five, a group with the common goal of creating a nationalist school of Russian music. He received his first composition lessons from Mily Balakirev in 1857; he soon resigned from his military regiment to devote himself to music. He held a series of government jobs, but his worsening alcoholism eventually made him unemployable. His personal decline was accompanied by maturity as a composer, and he wrote his major works, including the symphonic poem Night on Bald Mountain (1867), the great opera Boris Godunov (1868), and the famous piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition (1874). His 65 songs describe vivid scenes of Russian life and realistically reproduce the inflections of the spoken Russian language. After Mussorgsky's death, his works were published in drastically edited form, purged of their distinctive starkness and unorthodox harmonies; the original versions were made available in 1928
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: {i} (1835-1881) Russian musical composer (known primarily for the operas "Boris Godunov" and "Khovanshchina" and his musical piece "Pictures from an Exhibition")
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: born March 21, 1839, Karevo, Russia died March 28, 1881, St. Petersburg Russian composer. Composing without training in his teens, he met several of the composers with whom he later made up The Five, a group with the common goal of creating a nationalist school of Russian music. He received his first composition lessons from Mily Balakirev in 1857; he soon resigned from his military regiment to devote himself to music. He held a series of government jobs, but his worsening alcoholism eventually made him unemployable. His personal decline was accompanied by maturity as a composer, and he wrote his major works, including the symphonic poem Night on Bald Mountain (1867), the great opera Boris Godunov (1868), and the famous piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition (1874). His 65 songs describe vivid scenes of Russian life and realistically reproduce the inflections of the spoken Russian language. After Mussorgsky's death, his works were published in drastically edited form, purged of their distinctive starkness and unorthodox harmonies; the original versions were made available in 1928
modest request: reasonable request
Modest.: chaste
modestly: {a} with modesty, chastely, dissidently
being modest: being humble, being unassuming, being unpretentious, being reserved
modestly: in a modest fashion; humbly, unpretentiously, unassumingly; moderately; in a limited manner; appropriately, decently
modestly: In a modest manner
modestly: in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'
modestly: in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'"