What is another word for "modest"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "modest": all, and, are, background, bashful, bashfulness, beat, blush, blushing, brother, bushel, candle, cast, ceremony, chaste, chastity, cherry, constrained, constraint, continence, continent, countenance, coy, decency, decent, decorous, decorum, delicacy, delicate, demure, demureness, diffidence, diffident, disposition, distance, draw, drum, eye, face, fame.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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