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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



... Driver, I can keep him within no moderate Bounds without Blows; but for his filthy Custom of Wenching, I have almost broke him of that—but prithee, Driver, who ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... retentive power may then be very greatly increased by judicious exercise and labor, which have that distinct end in view, just as the limbs gradually grow stronger by daily exercise. If it is accustomed to retain a moderate quantity of knowledge in childhood, it is strengthened and fitted for more rapid development in youth. That is the golden period to learn the "form of sound words," that shall exert a moulding influence ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... authors, three or four hundred concise and sententious phrases; these he had classed according to subject, and formed a work of them in the style of Montesquieu. To this treatise he had given the following general title: "Of Moderate Monarchy" (De la Monarchie temperee), with chapters entitled, "Of the Person of the Prince;" "Of the Authority of Bodies in the State;" "Of the Character of the Executive Functions of the Monarchy." Had he been able to carry into effect all the grand precepts ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... nearer to the heavens. It is very possible that this theory had been long in his mind, or, at any rate, that he held it before he reached the coast of Paria. When there, new facts struck his mind, and were combined with his theory. He found the temperature much more moderate than might have been expected so near the equinoctial line, far more moderate than on the opposite coast of Africa. In the evenings, indeed, it was necessary for him to wear an outer garment of fur. Then, the natives were lighter coloured, more astute, and braver than those of the islands. Their ...
— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps
... took it in her hands and turned the leaves very much as a child might turn those of a book in an unknown tongue, in which there were no illustrations nor anything that looked the least interesting. It was a pretty volume of moderate size, bound in purple morocco, ...
— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr


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