Definition of Overmodest

1. Adjective. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.

Exact synonyms: Coy, Demure
Similar to: Modest
Derivative terms: Coyness, Demureness, Demureness

Definition of Overmodest

1. a. Modest to excess; bashful.

Definition of Overmodest

1. Adjective. Excessively modest. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overmodest

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmodest

overmilitarizing
overmilk
overmilked
overmilking
overmilks
overmind
overminds
overmine
overmined
overmines
overmining
overmix
overmixed
overmixes
overmixing
overmodest (current term)
overmodestly
overmodulate
overmodulated
overmodulates
overmodulating
overmodulation
overmoist
overmoisture
overmore
overmorrow
overmost
overmount
overmounted
overmounting

Literary usage of Overmodest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"They're not behind any nation in arrogance," said Lilly ; " and if they have got in the rear, it has not been because they were overmodest. ..."

2. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"The above items were extracted from his overmodest classmates only by physical force. If you are interested in this column send in anything you have. ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"His position at Berlin was pleasant, but overmodest, and offered no near prospects for promotion. So he accepted the proffer, and prepared at the end of ..."

4. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... but nowadays women of unprepossessing physical outlines or of overmodest minds prefer some mode of drapery that gives their ingenuity a chance to rival ..."

5. The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John G. Lockhart, Ricardo de los Ríos (1881)
"... it is not good to bear too hard upon a man that is so overmodest and so much in affliction: for certainly this must needs be a miserable soul; ..."

6. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The commission thought his view was overmodest. The Cabinet as a body placed all responsibility on the council, sometimes requesting that it was not to be ..."

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