Definition of Immoderate

1. Adjective. Beyond reasonable limits. "Immoderate spending"


Definition of Immoderate

1. a. Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.

Definition of Immoderate

1. Adjective. excessive or lacking, not consistent ¹

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Definition of Immoderate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immoderate

immobility
immobilization
immobilizations
immobilize
immobilized
immobilizer
immobilizers
immobilizes
immobilizing
immobilizing antibody
immobilon
immoble
immoderacies
immoderacy
immoderancy
immoderate (current term)
immoderately
immoderateness
immoderation
immoderations
immodest
immodesties
immodestly
immodesty
immolate
immolated
immolates
immolating
immolation
immolations

Literary usage of Immoderate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"EXCESSIVE, immoderate, INTEMPERATE. THE EXCESSIVE is beyond measure; the immoderate, ... immoderate and intemperate designate excess in moral agents. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Diseases of Females by William Dewees (1854)
"Of the immoderate Flow of the Menses. This complaint is much more rare than we should be led to believe, did we regard popular opinion; or even some of the ..."

3. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"... FOE immoderate CORRECTION, AND WHAT CORRECTION OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERED immoderate. BY the common law, it is the duty of parents to support their minor ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"... and this principle applies, notwithstanding it is played according to established rules.379 (c) immoderate Correction of Child, Pupil or Apprentice. ..."

5. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1882)
"... good religion who drinks wine immoderately, and loss and injury happen to him owing to that immoderate drinking, what is then the decision about him ? ..."

6. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"A Plague of immoderate Rain "—A Confidential Servant—Ito's Diary—Ito's Excellences—Ito's Faults—A Prophecy of the Future of Japan—Curious Queries—Superfine ..."

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