Modest vs Intermediate - What's the difference?
modest | intermediate |
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.
Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
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, title= Anything in an intermediate position.
An intermediary.
(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
to mediate, to be an intermediate
to arrange, in the manner of a broker
As adjectives the difference between modest and intermediate
is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.As a noun intermediate is
anything in an intermediate position.As a verb intermediate is
to mediate, to be an intermediate.modest
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He earns a modest amount of money.
- Her latest novel was a modest success.
Synonyms
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* immodestDerived terms
* modest proposal * modestyintermediate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
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(en noun)Verb
(intermediat)- Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.