modest

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

mod·est (mŏdʹĭst)adj.
1. Having or showing a moderate estimation of one's own talents, abilities, and value.
2. Having or proceeding from a disinclination to call attention to oneself; retiring or diffident. See Synonyms at shy¹.
3. Observing conventional proprieties in speech, behavior, or dress.
4. Free from showiness or ostentation; unpretentious. See Synonyms at plain.
5. Moderate or limited in size, quantity, or range; not extreme:
a modest price; a newspaper with a modest circulation. [Latin modestus. See med- in Indo-European Roots.] modʹest·ly adv.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  minor, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized, meek, mild, humble, low, lowly