overmodest

1. 1.

   affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

   Synonymscoydemure

   Similarmodest

Questions about overmodest

What does overmodest mean?

overmodest means "affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way".

How many syllables are in overmodest?

overmodest has 4 syllables: o-ver-mo-dest. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for overmodest?

Close synonyms include coy, demure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overmodest a common word?

overmodest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.