Antonyms for modesty
ˈmɒd ə stimod·esty

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1. modesty

   Bashfulness is a shrinking from notice without assignable reason. Coyness is a half encouragement, half avoidance of offered attention, and may be real or affected. Diffidence is self-distrust; modesty, a humble estimate of oneself in comparison with others, or with the demands of some undertaking. Modesty has also the specific meaning of a sensitive shrinking from anything indelicate. Shyness is a tendency to shrink from observation; timidity, a distinct fear of criticism, error, or failure. Reserve is the holding oneself aloof from others, or holding back one's feelings from expression, or one's affairs from communication to others. Reserve may be the retreat of shyness, or, on the other hand, the contemptuous withdrawal of pride and haughtiness. Compare ABASH; PRIDE; TACITURN.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, arrogance, assumption, assurance, boldness, conceit, confidence, egotism, forwardness, frankness, freedom, haughtiness, impudence, indiscretion, loquaciousness, loquacity, pertness, sauciness, self-conceit, self-sufficiency, sociability

   Synonyms:
   backwardness, bashfulness, coldness, constraint, coyness, diffidence, reserve, shyness, timidity, unobtrusiveness

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1. modesty

   Antonyms:
   vanity, conceit, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, foppery, coxcombry, wantonness, shamelessness, effrontery

   Synonyms:
   sobriety, diffidence, bashfulness, humility, pure-mindedness

Matched Categories

1. • Decency
   • Propriety

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. modesty, modestnessnoun

   freedom from vanity or conceit

   Antonyms:
   immodesty

   Synonyms:
   reserve, moderateness, modestness, reasonableness

2. modesty, reservenoun

   formality and propriety of manner

   Antonyms:
   immodesty

   Synonyms:
   substitute, stockpile, second-stringer, taciturnity, reservation, reserve, backlog, military reserve, reticence, modestness

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1. modestynoun

   Antonyms:
   immodesty, boldness, indelicacy

   Synonyms:
   unobtrusiveness, humility, delicacy, chastity, purity, decency, pudicity

How to use modesty in a sentence?

1. Antony Blinken:

   My dad was 96-years-old. He was in so many ways my role model, he built a remarkable business, one of the leading investment banks in this country over many years. He led a life of dignity, of decency, of modesty that is something I've very much aspired to.

2. Honoré de Balzac:

   Modesty is the conscience of the body.

3. Burmese Proverb:

   He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man.

4. Addison:

   A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

5. President Nicolas Maduro:

   We have a great advantage, and we can say it without false modesty: we are better than they are.

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