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Humble
Not showy
unpretentious, unostentatious, unobtrusive, demure, quiet, seemly, proper, decorous, unstudied, plain, simple, natural, unassuming, humble, unornamented, tasteful, unadorned, unembellished, unvarnished, unaffected, homely, taking a back seat*, hiding one's face*; see also dignified, reserved 3.Antonyms
immodest*, ostentatious, pretentious. Moderate
reasonable, inexpensive, average; see cheap 1, economical 2, moderate 1.Proper
decent, proper, chaste, seemly; see decent 2, innocent 4, prudish.Lowly
plain, simple, unaffected; see humble 2. See syn. study at chaste, shy.
See modest in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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