immodest

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=mod=est

CIDE DICTIONARY

immodest, a. [F. immodeste, L. immodestus immoderate; pref. im- not + modestus modest. See Modest.].

•  Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought,
  But we proscribe the least immodest thought."

Syn. -- Indecorous; indelicate; shameless; shameful; impudent; indecent; impure; unchaste; lewd; obscene.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

immodest, adj.
1 lacking modesty; forward, impudent.
2 lacking due decency.

Derivative

immodestly adv. immodesty n.

Etymology

F immodeste or L immodestus (as IN-(1), MODEST)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

immodest

adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others.

There was once a man in Ispahan
Ever and ever so long ago,
And he had a head, the phrenologists said,
That fitted him for a show.

For his modesty's bump was so large a lump
(Nature, they said, had taken a freak)
That its summit stood far above the wood
Of his hair, like a mountain peak.

So modest a man in all Ispahan,
Over and over again they swore --
So humble and meek, you would vainly seek;
None ever was found before.

Meantime the hump of that awful bump
Into the heavens contrived to get
To so great a height that they called the wight
The man with the minaret.

There wasn't a man in all Ispahan
Prouder, or louder in praise of his chump:
With a tireless tongue and a brazen lung
He bragged of that beautiful bump

Till the Shah in a rage sent a trusty page
Bearing a sack and a bow-string too,
And that gentle child explained as he smiled:
"A little present for you."

The saddest man in all Ispahan,
Sniffed at the gift, yet accepted the same.
"If I'd lived," said he, "my humility
Had given me deathless fame!"
Sukker Uffro

THESAURUS

immodest

aggressively self-confident, arrogant, bawdy, biggety, bold, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, coarse, cocky, conceited, dirty, disrespectful, exhibitionistic, flagrant, forward, fresh, impertinent, improper, impudent, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, know-it-all, lascivious, lewd, loose, notorious, obscene, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, presumptuous, provocative, puffed up, revealing, self-conceited, self-opinionated, sexy, shameful, shameless, smart-alecky, smutty, stuck-up, swelled-headed, titillating, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unembarrassed, unmodest, unrestrained, wanton

ROGET THESAURUS

immodest

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.