"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 • ...
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
1. fairly modest = dość skromny fairly modest
2. somewhat modest = nieco skromny somewhat modest
3. overly modest = zbyt skromny overly modest
  • Mr. Bernstein is not overly modest, he said, but did not know whether there was anybody interested in the blacklist any more.
  • Indeed, he sometimes seems to have an overly modest sense of his own powers.
  • Rumail possessed no special talent in controlling weather, but neither was he overly modest about his power as a laranzu.
  • Several hours and false trails later, I determined that Frank Paco does own the business, but is overly modest about it.
  • But they overcompensate now by making the conference an overly modest affair.
  • Few problems better illustrate the busy new museum's difficulties than the long lines at what seems like the overly modest number of public restrooms.
  • (He awarded himself a 2:2, which I thought overly modest.)
  • His smile made sure the Executioner knew he was being overly modest.
  • Even the Pentagon, which has been largely exempted from budget pressures since 9/11, would have to find some (overly modest) cuts.
  • In this company, Ms. Steenburgen is an overly modest contender.
4. pretty modest = całkiem skromny pretty modest
(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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