Modest vs Puny - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
(obsolete) A younger person.
*, II.12:
(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
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Modest is a related term of puny.
As adjectives the difference between modest and puny
is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while puny is of inferior size, strength or significance.As a noun puny is
(obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student.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 * modestypuny
English
Noun
(punies)- a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
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Adjective
(er)- A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.