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Moderate   /mˈɑdərət/  /mˈɑdərˌeɪt/   Listen
Moderate

adjective
1.
Being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme.  "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"
2.
Not extreme.  Synonym: temperate.  "Temperate in his response to criticism"
3.
Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes.  Synonym: restrained.  "Restrained in his response"
verb
(past & past part. moderated; pres. part. moderating)
1.
Preside over.  Synonyms: chair, lead.
2.
Make less fast or intense.
3.
Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits.  Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in.  "Hold your tongue" , "Hold your temper" , "Control your anger"
4.
Make less severe or harsh.  Synonyms: mince, soften.
5.
Make less strong or intense; soften.  Synonyms: tame, tone down.  "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
6.
Restrain.  Synonyms: chasten, temper.
noun
1.
A person who takes a position in the political center.  Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist.



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"Moderate" Quotes from Famous Books



... as prosperous as his heart could desire. The business flourished, and money beyond his moderate wants came in. As for himself he required very little; but he had always looked forward to placing his idol in a befitting shrine; and means for this were now furnished to him. The dress, the comforts, the position he had desired for Sylvia were all hers. She did not need to do ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. III • Elizabeth Gaskell
... was indefatigable in his efforts to force upon Bucholz the responsibility of the murder, and no means were left untried to accomplish that purpose. As yet the only evidence was his possession of a moderate amount of money, which bore the marks made upon it by the man who had been slain, and which might or might not have come to him in a legitimate ...
— Bucholz and the Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... person, Mr. Wylder; a gentleman of very moderate abilities, with no prospects, and without fortune, who finds himself, without any deservings of his own, on a sudden, possessed of an estate, and about to be united to the most beautiful heiress in England, is, I ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... to the king of Portugal. The authority of this prince served to counterbalance that of the duke of Glocester, and secured the power of Richard, who paid great court to his eldest uncle, by whom he had never been offended, and whom he found more moderate in his temper than the younger. He made a cession to him for life of the duchy of Guienne,[***] which the inclinations and changeable humor of the Gascons had restored to the English government; but as they remonstrated loudly against this deed, it was finally, with the duke's consent, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume
... moderate your expressions, cousin, regarding the dear Countess and my lord your brother," Mr. Warrington resumed. "Of you they always speak most tenderly. Her ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray


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