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adj.
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| bibl. |
be sober (yuliya zadorozhny) |
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скромный adj. | |
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| génér. |
frugal; lowly; unassuming; unpretentious; spare; decent; demure (quiet, shy, modest and well behaved (sometimes deceptively) • She looked too demure ever to do such a bold thing); diffident; homely; mean; shamefaced (о цветке и т. п.); simple (not fancy or unusual; plain); small; low-profile (о роли); maidenlike; pudent; pudibund; self-effacing; unassertive; unobtrusive (not too obvious or noticeable • She is quiet and unobtrusive); unpresuming; unpretending; abstemious; bashful; blushing; discreet; meagre (о результатах Olga Okuneva); moderate; chaste; honest; obscure; unpresumptuous; unostentatious (Anglophile); unimposing (Anglophile); limited (об успехе, ресурсах и т.п. denghu); minimalistic (@ndreas); low profile; meek; neat; low-key (Liv Bliss); inexpensive; medium-priced; scanty; retiring (Alexander Demidov); modest (not having, or showing, too high an opinion of one's abilities etc. • He's very modest about his success); conservative (о подсчётах, оценке и т. п. • District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey declared last evening that he had "a minimum of 400 to 450 votes" pledged to vote for him for the Presidential nomination and said this was "a conservative figure." • At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year. • by our conservative assesment); blushful; sheepish; coy; humble (not having a high opinion of oneself etc. • You have plenty of ability but you're too humble); plain; quiet; down-to-earth (I was surprised to find the movie star so down–to–earth. Echie); unboastful (MaRRi-01); quietly-spoken (Boris Gorelik); unassuming in disposition (SirReal); small in amount (скромные выплаты sankozh); unprovoking (not provocative, unprovocative RomanBee); conservative (об оценке ситуации • by our conservative assesment Val_Ships); lowkey (MichaelBurov); inadequate (говоря о заработной плате • Slow weeks with inadequate pay are viewed as the " feast or famine" norm in the industry.  nytimes.com Karychinskiy); distant; distrustful; grave (наряд); narrow; reserved (на слова); retiring; secret; sober; ware; wary; not shooting for the stars (Ivan Pisarev); unambitious (Ivan Pisarev); grounded (Ivan Pisarev); down to earth (Ivan Pisarev); not aiming high (Ivan Pisarev); with moderate aspirations (Ivan Pisarev); not overly ambitious (Ivan Pisarev); level-headed (Ivan Pisarev); with moderate ambitions (Ivan Pisarev); restrained (Ivan Pisarev) |
| amér. |
low-key (без излишеств; The wedding will be a very low-key affair. Val_Ships) |
| arch. |
shy |
| makar. |
coy (особ. о девушке) |
| obsol. |
assober |
| peu fr. |
verecund |
| psych. |
unconfident |
| relig. |
humble oneself; maidenly; gentle |
| techn. |
modest |
| techn., obsol. |
humble |
| vulg. |
slow (в сексуальном плане) |
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| génér. |
maidenlike; abstemiously (AlexP73); humbly; sheepishly; decently; frugally; modestly (Notburga); lowly; maidenly; chastely; quietly (quietly dressed SvlLana); simply (in a simple manner • She was always very simply dressed); not make a big deal of (напр., скромно отмечать день рождения – not make a big deal of one's birthday 4uzhoj); diffident; discreetly; gravely (одетый); hardly; moderately; reservedly; demurely; distrustfully; unobtrusively (unobtrusively dressed) |
| arch. |
in a small way |
| makar. |
with a modest air; plainly |
| obsol. |
coyly |
| poét. |
shamefacedly |
