Modest vs Trifling - What's the difference?
modest | trifling | 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.
trivial, or of little importance
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idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
Modest is a related term of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between modest and trifling
is that modest is not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.modest
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He earns a modest amount of money.
- Her latest novel was a modest success.
Synonyms
* See also * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* immodestDerived terms
* modest proposal * modestytrifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.