Immoderate
[ɪ'mɒd(ə)rət] or [ɪ'mɑdərət]
Definition
(adj.) beyond reasonable limits; 'immoderate laughter'; 'immoderate spending' .
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Definition
(a.) Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inordinate, excessive, unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, intemperate.
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Definition
adj. exceeding proper bounds: extravagant.—ns. Immod′eracy Immod′erateness the quality of being immoderate: extravagance.—adv. Immod′erately.—n. Immoderā′tion want of moderation: excess.
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Examples
- I have always been accused of being immoderate and saying too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So Peggotty said; but I am afraid the chat was all on her own side, and of immoderate length, as she was very difficult indeed to stop, God bless her! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We both, in the same instant, burst into an immoderate fit of loud laughter, when Will had the good sense to leave us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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