Synonyms for overmodest
- demure
- correct
- spruce
- stickling
- tidy
- uncluttered
- Victorian
- blue-nose
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- dapper
- decorous
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- nit-picking
- orderly
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- spic-and-span
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- upright
- well-groomed
- wooden
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Like many others 'clothed with a little brief authority' he was not overmodest in showing his importance.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR OVERMODEST
bashful
adjectiveshycoy
adjectivevery modestprim
adjectiveparticular, fussy- Victorian
- blue-nose
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- correct
- dapper
- decorous
- demure
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- nit-picking
- orderly
- overmodest
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- spic-and-span
- spruce
- stickling
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- tidy
- uncluttered
- upright
- well-groomed
- wooden
prudish
adjectiveshy and strict in behavior- Victorian
- affected
- artificial
- austere
- bigoted
- conventional
- demure
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- illiberal
- mincing
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- offish
- overexact
- overmodest
- overnice
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- simpering
- square
- squeamish
- starchy
- stern
- stiff
- stilted
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- uptight
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