Moderate

['mɒd(ə)rət] or ['mɑdərət]

Definition

(verb.) make less fast or intense; 'moderate your speed'.

(verb.) preside over; 'John moderated the discussion'.

(adj.) not extreme; 'a moderate penalty'; 'temperate in his response to criticism' .

(adj.) being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; 'moderate prices'; 'a moderate income'; 'a moderate fine'; 'moderate demands'; 'a moderate estimate'; 'a moderate eater'; 'moderate success'; 'a kitchen of moderate size'; 'the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart' .

(adj.) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; 'moderate in his demands'; 'restrained in his response' .

Editor: Nolan--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

(a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.

(a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.

(a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.

(a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.

(a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.

(a.) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.

(a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.

(n.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

(v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.

(v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.

(v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

(v. i.) To preside as a moderator.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Temperate, sparing, frugal, not excessive.[2]. Cheap, unexpensive.[3]. Reasonable, judicious, deliberate, cool, mild, not extreme, not violent.

v. a. Assuage, soothe, allay, mitigate, soften, mollify, appease, temper, attemper, quiet, quell, still, pacify, repress, subdue, abate, reduce, lessen, dull, blunt.

Checker: Mandy

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Control, soften, allay, regulate, repress, govern, temper

ANT:Disturb, disorganize, excite, misconduct

SYN:Limited, temperate, calm, dispassionate, sober, abstinent, sparing, steady,ordinary

ANT:Extravagant, intemperate, rigorous, excessive, violent, extraordinary

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