| 单词 | modestly |
| 释义 | modestly (once / 1112 pages) adv To do something modestly is to do it in a humble way, without showing off. After her play's successful opening night, a playwright might choose to sit modestly in the audience rather than going on stage to bow. When you act in an unpretentious way, you act modestly, and when you do something in the simplest way possible, you also do it modestly. The adjective modest can mean both "humble" and "small." Modesty and modest come from the Latin modestia, "sense of honor," or "correctness of conduct," from the root word modus, "measure or manner." WORD FAMILYmodest: immodest, modester, modestest, modestly, modestness, overmodest+/immodest: immodestest, immodestly/overmodest: overmodestly USAGE EXAMPLESHowever, it believes the UK will see "modestly slower" increases next year as the economy weakens. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Stocks moved modestly higher in early trading Tuesday as U.S. markets reopened following the holiday weekend. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) The bank’s share price was up modestly on hopes of a bailout. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) adv with modesty; in a modest manner the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare' Ant immodestly without modesty; in an immodest manner |
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