"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

modest adjetivo

modest + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 257

modest success • modest increase • modest mean • modest amount • modest home • modest gain • modest house • modest man • ...

verbo + modest

Kolokacji: 3

look modest • sound modest • consider modest

adverbio + modest

Kolokacji: 22

relatively modest • most modest • fairly modest • comparatively modest • extremely modest • ...

Kolokacji: 3

Grup znaczeniowych: 6

(1) relatively, comparatively

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 10

1. most modest = najskromniejszy most modest

2. surprisingly modest = zadziwiająco skromny surprisingly modest

3. seemingly modest = pozornie skromny seemingly modest

4. deceptively modest = pozornie skromny deceptively modest

5. far more modest = dużo więcej skromny far more modest

6. decidedly modest = zdecydowanie skromny decidedly modest

7. suitably modest = odpowiednio skromny suitably modest

8. appropriately modest = właściwie skromny appropriately modest

9. unduly modest = nadmiernie skromny unduly modest

10. falsely modest = fałszywie skromny falsely modest

"I would be falsely modest if I were to say that I was surprised that people are interested in what I have to say."
I didn't want to force him to be falsely modest, or even genuinely so.
Nor did they seem to be falsely modest.
They made Nelson look falsely modest.
She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin, gawky adolescent.
Blade wasn't being falsely modest.
I do not wish to be falsely modest.
"You'll find I am not a falsely modest man."
He was not falsely modest, but was always honest, unpretentious and humorous.
I'm not trying to be falsely modest, Honor.

(3) fairly, somewhat, overly, pretty

Kolokacji: 4

(4) extremely, exceedingly

Kolokacji: 2

(5) equally, similarly

Kolokacji: 2

(6) unusually, remarkably

Kolokacji: 2

modest + preposición

Kolokacji: 8

modest in • modest about • modest by • modest to • modest with • ...

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