Thesaurus / overmodest
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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
- puritanical
- prissy
- fastidious
- squeamish
- uptight
- narrow-minded
- Victorian
- affected
- artificial
- austere
- bigoted
- conventional
- demure
- finicky
- genteel
- illiberal
- mincing
- narrow
- precise
- pretentious
- priggish
- prim
- proper
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- square
- starchy
- stern
- stiff
- stilted
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- offish
- overexact
- overnice
- simpering
- reticent
- sheepish
- diffident
- coy
- confused
- embarrassed
- timid
- self-conscious
- abashed
- backward
- blushing
- chary
- demure
- humble
- modest
- nervous
- reserved
- retiring
- shamefaced
- shrinking
- silent
- timorous
- constrained
- self-effacing
- blushful
- recoiling
- unassertive
- verecund
- self-effacing
- timid
- bashful
- skittish
- evasive
- backward
- blushing
- demure
- diffident
- flirtatious
- humble
- kittenish
- prudish
- reserved
- retiring
- shrinking
- shy
- coquettish
- rabbity
- unassertive
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How to use overmodest in a sentence
Like many others 'clothed with a little brief authority' he was not overmodest in showing his importance.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY - VOLUME 1 - ISSUE 3VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO OVERMODEST
- 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
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.