Synonyms: minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale
Definition: limited in size or scope
Usage: a small business; a newspaper with a modest circulation; small-scale plans; a pocket-size country
Similar words: limited
Definition: small in range or scope
Usage: limited war; a limited success; a limited circle of friends
Definition: not large but sufficient in size or amount
Usage: a modest salary; modest inflation; helped in my own small way
Similar words: moderate
Definition: being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
Usage: moderate prices; a moderate income; a moderate fine; moderate demands; a moderate estimate; a moderate eater; moderate success; a kitchen of moderate size; the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart
Synonyms: modest
Definition: not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
Similar words: overmodest, coy, demure
Definition: affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
Similar words: decent
Definition: observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress
Usage: a modest neckline in her dress; though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards
Similar words: decent
Definition: decently clothed
Usage: are you decent?
Similar words: shamefaced
Definition: extremely modest or shy
Usage: cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise- H.O.Taylor
Synonyms: modest
Definition: marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
Usage: a modest apartment; too modest to wear his medals
Similar words: unassuming, retiring
Definition: not arrogant or presuming
Usage: unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work; a shy retiring girl
Synonyms: modest
Definition: free from pomp or affectation
Usage: comfortable but modest cottages; a simple rectangular brick building; a simple man with simple tastes
Similar words: unpretentious
Definition: lacking pretension or affectation
Usage: an unpretentious country church; her quiet unpretentious demeanor
Definition: humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
Usage: meek and self-effacing
Similar words: humble
Definition: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
Usage: a humble apology; essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions- B.K.Malinowski
Synonyms: humble, small, low, lowly, modest
Definition: low or inferior in station or quality
Usage: a humble cottage; a lowly parish priest; a modest man of the people; small beginnings
Similar words: inferior
Definition: of or characteristic of low rank or importance