"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
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
1. extremely modest = niezwykle skromny extremely modest
2. exceedingly modest = niezmiernie skromny exceedingly modest
  • And while he's exceedingly modest about his knowledge of all things old and older, he knows plenty, and has a killer eye.
  • While budgeting $1.5 billion for five incinerators, the department's exceedingly modest recycling plans remain on the drawing board.
  • In any case, Democrats are taking heart from exceedingly modest gains.
  • Several of the state experiments with time limits are exceedingly modest.
  • The house is considered exceedingly modest for the neighborhood.
  • And he is already a wealthy man, so it's not exactly the same thing as a young lawyer going to work for exceedingly modest wages.
  • His way of living was exceedingly modest and retired; often he did not leave his room for many days together.
  • True, the Mariner Hybrid hit its sales target without breaking a sweat, but that is an exceedingly modest 2,000 a year.
  • Even the exceedingly modest Jones boasts that the feel is a good one right now.
  • I consider myself to be a strong, handsome, intelligent, witty and exceedingly modest individual.
(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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