Excessively modest, particularly in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements.
he was aware of his lack of charisma and over-modest about his abilities
Example sentencesExamples
I like his openness to the idea that his way isn't the only way. If anything, he is overmodest.
I'm not being over modest when I say that we will be pleased if we can manage to keep up with the rest of the class without too much stress.
The level of detail and casually assured knowledge evident in this book would tend to suggest that he's being over-modest.
Daffyd was his usual over modest self when we rang up to congratulate him.
A round of applause for this microcomputer—which has just passed the 5 million sales mark, some three years after it was first launched with the over-modest goal of selling "a few thousand".
"I'm very ill-read. I know that sounds overmodest but it's quite true," he said.
He does not make waves, but is, if anything, over-modest.
He laughs, aware perhaps that, as with his baking, he's being over-modest.
He acknowledges that they do have some influence—although here he is perhaps a bit overmodest.
An overmodest and retiring applicant does not stand much of a chance.
Definition of over-modest in US English:
over-modest
adjective
Excessively modest, particularly in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements.
he was aware of his lack of charisma and over-modest about his abilities
Example sentencesExamples
The level of detail and casually assured knowledge evident in this book would tend to suggest that he's being over-modest.
He acknowledges that they do have some influence—although here he is perhaps a bit overmodest.
A round of applause for this microcomputer—which has just passed the 5 million sales mark, some three years after it was first launched with the over-modest goal of selling "a few thousand".
I'm not being over modest when I say that we will be pleased if we can manage to keep up with the rest of the class without too much stress.
"I'm very ill-read. I know that sounds overmodest but it's quite true," he said.
He does not make waves, but is, if anything, over-modest.
I like his openness to the idea that his way isn't the only way. If anything, he is overmodest.
An overmodest and retiring applicant does not stand much of a chance.
Daffyd was his usual over modest self when we rang up to congratulate him.
He laughs, aware perhaps that, as with his baking, he's being over-modest.