immodest
4
6.8
- adjective
- /ɪˈmɒdɪst/
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presuntuoso
- Please don't think me immodest... but I'm really the best.
- risk of sounding immodest
- want to seem immodest
- seem immodest
Examples
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Without being immodest, there's hardly anyone in this part of the world who doesn't.
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I advance the immodest claim that theories of international politics ought to recognize the role of the changing knowledge of nature and society that we, as actors, carry in our heads.
Academic text (1990) -
An immodest sense of pride in our community!
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- It would be immodest of me to say... ...that this idea was mine.
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I don't want to sound immodest
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It will not be immodest in you to praise me a little.
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"It was a pretty big beating," said an immodest Neil Oxman, one of Pennsylvania's top Democratic Party campaign strategists.
Blog text (11) -
Heralds of a new age—does that sound immodest?
Fiction book (1991) -
So we hope it will not be thought immodest for us to say that Buckley has had more of an impact on the political life of this country—and a better one—than some of our presidents.
Blog text (14) -
His immodest claims about his achievements made others uncomfortable.
Synonyms
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4.5
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
74
7.3
Trying to seem more important or clever than you really are
58
7.8
Being sure you are much more important than other people
57
5.8
Acting more important and formal than necessary
52
3.8
Thinking you are more attractive or important than others
24
5.4
Thinking you are much better than other people
24
6.6
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
16
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
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5.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
6
8.6
A person who only cares about themselves and thinks they are more important than other people
4
8.6
Claiming to be more important or successful than you are
3
9.9
Bragging too much about how great you think you are
3
9.1
Acting more important than you really are
2
9.8
Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you
1
7.2
Thinking you are more important than other people
Thinking you are better than other people
Thinking you are better than other people
Acting more confident and important than you really are
Antonyms
How Modest
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immodest is made from the parts im- 'not' and modest, the same root as moderate and modesty, and it comes from a word for 'measure'. So, to be immodest in this sense is to be 'not measured' about yourself — to show too much pride or act like you are more important than you are.