Modest is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 138 anagrams from letters in modest (demost).
1555-65; Latin modestus restrained, decorous, equivalent to modes- (stem of *modus, an s-stem akin to modus mode1, perhaps *medos, with the vowel of modus;
Tell you what the trouble is with you, old man: you're too modest.
Even its benign forms—the resurgence of modest dress norms in Jewish communities, for example—perpetuate this idea.
The face, neck, and arms of the modest maiden were flushed with indignant crimson.
How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?
Few could imagine from his modest exterior the latent, fire and energy which burn in his bosom.
A modest crowd moved East on 110th Street in New York City on Sunday evening.
And there are other stories DuVernay could have told and still met her (relatively) modest budget of $20 million.
He's as boyishly honest as if he were sixteen; and as modest.
I knew the Clintons had arrived at the White House with modest means.
Our hero listened with modest pleasure while it was being read.