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Definition of Moderate

1. Adjective. Being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme. "The X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart"

2. Verb. Preside over. "Sam and Sue moderate"; "John moderated the discussion"

3. Noun. A person who takes a position in the political center.

4. Adjective. Not extreme. "Temperate in his response to criticism"

5. Verb. Make less fast or intense. "Moderate your speed"

6. Adjective. Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes. "Restrained in his response"

7. Verb. Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits. "Control your anger"

8. Verb. Make less severe or harsh. "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"

9. Verb. Make less strong or intense; soften. "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

10. Verb. Restrain.

Definition of Moderate

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

Definition of Moderate

1. Adjective. Not excessive; acting in moderation ¹

2. Adjective. Mediocre ¹

3. Adjective. Average priced; standard-deal ¹

4. Adjective. (US politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative. ¹

5. Noun. (context: politics) One who holds an intermediate position between the extremes relevant in a political context ¹

6. Noun. Similar middle-grounder in any other context. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something) ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To become less excessive ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Moderate

1. to make less extreme [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moderate

modellos modells modelly modelocked models modem modemed modeming modemless modems

modena modenas moder moderable moderance moderate (current term) moderate breeze moderate gale moderate hypothermia moderated

moderately moderateness moderatenesses moderates moderating moderation moderationist moderations moderatism moderato

Literary usage of Moderate

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

1. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"Miss Margaret Shippen, daughter of a gentleman Miss Margaret °f moderate Tory ... In the moderate section of the Tory party, to which the Shippens belonged, ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"lO) To moderate the zeal of his party, to protect the persons of his enemies,(14) to defeat and to despise the secret enterprises which were formed against ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"The first and strongest impulse to political thought in the direction of moderate Reform as against armed Revolution, was given by Vincenzo ..."

4. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"If you have rash friends, moderate their deplorable ardour. If Mr. Hartright returns to England, hold no communication with him. l walk, on a path of my own ..."

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