modestly

English

Etymology

From modest +‎ -ly.

Adverb

modestly (comparative more modestly, superlative most modestly)

1. In a modest manner; with humility.

   Synonyms: chastely, humbly, meekly; see also Thesaurus:virtuously

   The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table.

   • 2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     An hour later, Trump and Starmer were gathered in the modestly named Donald J Trump Ballroom for the press conference proper.

2. To a small degree.

   Synonyms: mildly, slightly, somewhat; see also Thesaurus:slightly

   • 2013, Harry L. Shipman, Space 2000: Meeting the Challenge of a New Era, page 55:

     These new shuttlelike craft might modestly reduce the cost of getting to low earth orbit.

   • 2024 November 30, Christine Fernando, “Emboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election”, in Associated Press‎:

     One of several factors to his success this election was modestly boosting his support among men, a shift concentrated among younger voters, according to AP VoteCast, survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.

Translations

in a modest manner

Armenian: համեստորեն (hy) (hamestoren) Catalan: modestament (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 謙虛地 / 谦虚地 (qiānxū de), 審慎地 / 审慎地 (shěnshèn de), 謙恭地 / 谦恭地 (qiāngōng de), 簡樸地 / 简朴地 (jiǎnpǔ de), 端莊地 / 端庄地 (duānzhuāng de), 適度地 / 适度地 (shìdù de) Dutch: bescheiden (nl) Esperanto: modeste (eo) Finnish: vaatimattomasti French: modestement (fr) Galician: modestamente Hindi: सविनय (hi) (savinay) Hungarian: szerényen (hu) Icelandic: með kurt og pí Italian: modestamente (it) Latin: modestē Macedonian: скромно (skromno) Malayalam: എളിമയോടെ (eḷimayōṭe) Portuguese: modestamente (pt) Russian: скро́мно (ru) (skrómno) Spanish: modestamente