Modest vs Distant - What's the difference?
modest | distant | Related terms |
Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
Small, moderate in size.
(especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.
Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
Modest is a related term of distant.
As adjectives the difference between modest and distant
is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).modest
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He earns a modest amount of money.
- Her latest novel was a modest success.
