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Braggart vs Modesty - What's the difference?

braggart | modesty |

As nouns the difference between braggart and modesty

is that braggart is someone who boasts while modesty is the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.

braggart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who boasts.
  • * Shakespeare
  • O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And braggart with my tongue.

    Synonyms

    * braggadocio * bragger * boaster * See also

    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