Moderate

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  • adjective. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme.
  • adjective. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of medium or average quantity or extent.
  • adjective. Of limited or average quality; mediocre.
  • adjective. Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.
  • noun. One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to be less extreme, intense, or violent.
  • intransitive verb. To preside over.
  • intransitive verb. To become less extreme, intense, or violent; abate.
  • intransitive verb. To act as a moderator.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To reduce the amount or intensity of; lessen; reduce; restrain; specifically, to reduce from a large amount or great degree to a medium quantity or intensity: as, to moderate the heat of a room; to moderate one's anger, ardor, or passions.
  • To decide as a moderator; judge.
  • Synonyms To mitigate, abate, appease, pacify, quiet, assuage, soothe, soften.
  • To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense: as, the storm begins to moderate.
  • To preside as a moderator, as at a meeting.
  • Restrained; temperate; keeping within somewhat restricted limits in action or opinion; avoiding extremes or excess; thinking or acting soberly or temperately: as, to be moderate in all things; a moderate drinker.
  • Thinking, speaking, or acting with habitual slowness; very deliberate.
  • Of things, limited in extent, amount, or degree; not extreme, excessive, or remarkable; restricted; medium: as, moderate wealth or poverty; a moderate quantity; moderate opinions or ability; moderate weather or exercise.
  • Synonyms Moderate, Temperate, reasonable, judicious, mild. When used absolutely, moderate, nearly always refers to a person's temper or opinions, whereas temperate similarly used generally refers to a person's habits in respect to bodily indulgence: a moderate man is one who is not extreme in his views or violent in his sentiments; a temperate man, one who is not addicted to over-indulgence either in eating or in drinking.
  • noun. One who is moderate in opinion or action; one who is opposed to extreme views or courses, especially in politics or religion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense.
  • intransitive verb. To preside as a moderator.
  • transitive verb. 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
  • transitive verb. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion.
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal.
  • adjective. Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow
  • adjective. Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like.
  • adjective. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
  • adjective. Limited as to degree of progress.
  • adjective. Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears.
  • adjective. Limited in scope or effects.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not excessive; acting in moderation
  • adjective. Mediocre
  • adjective. Average priced; standard-deal
  • adjective. Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
  • noun. One who holds an intermediate position between the extremes relevant in a political context
  • noun. Similar middle-grounder in any other context.
  • verb. To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
  • verb. To become less excessive
  • verb. To preside over (something) as a moderator
  • verb. To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
  • adjective. not extreme
  • verb. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
  • verb. make less fast or intense
  • adjective. marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes
  • verb. preside over
  • verb. make less strong or intense; soften
  • Word Usage
    "The language of everyday conversation, when not marked by intensity of feeling or purpose, requires only a moderate amount of physical and mental energy and is expressed by _moderate force_."
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