modest vs poor

modest

adj
  • Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble. 

  • Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others. 

  • Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety. 

  • Small, moderate in size. 

poor

adj
  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

How often have the words modest and poor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )