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Boastful vs Modesty - What's the difference?

boastful | modesty |

As an adjective boastful

is tending to boast or brag.

As a noun modesty is

the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.

boastful

English

Alternative forms

* boastfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to boast or brag.
  • He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.

    Derived terms

    * boastfulness

    See also

    * proud

    Anagrams

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    modesty

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia modesty) (en-noun)
  • The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • Moderate behaviour; reserve.
  • (lb) Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.
  • Derived terms

    * false modesty

    Antonyms

    * immodesty * extravagance * impudence