Word Meanings - MODERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
Additional info about word: MODERATE
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist. A number of moderate members managed ... to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. "Moderate showers." Walter. Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MODERATE)
- Abate
- Terminate
- remove
- suppress
- lower
- reduce
- mitigate
- diminish
- moderate
- lessen
- subside
- decrease
- Abstemious
- Abstinent
- self-denying
- sober
- temperate
- sparing
- frugal
- Allay
- soothe
- alleviate
- repress
- quiet
- appease
- compose
- soften
- pacify
- mollify
- assuage
- tranquilize
- palliate
- culm
- Alleviate
- Lighten
- relieve
- remit
- Attemper
- Moderate
- subdue
- compound
- commingle
- adapt
- adjust
- harmonize
- modify
- blend
- attune
- mix
- mold
- work
- medicate
- amalgamate
- accommodate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MODERATE)
- Resolve
- analyze
- Increase
- grow
- amplify
- expand
- augment
- extend
- enlarge
- Hoist
- raise
- heighten
- exalt
- increase
- aggrandize
- elevate
- Rouse
- excite
- disturb
- agitate
- stir
- urge
- goad
Related words: (words related to MODERATE)
- SPAR-HUNG
Hung with spar, as a cave. - MODIFY
1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower. - DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - SPARPOIL
To scatter; to spread; to disperse. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - FRUGALNESS
, n. Quality of being frugal; frugality. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - ATTEMPER
1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - ADJUSTIVE
Tending to adjust. - ABATER
One who, or that which, abates. - FRUGALLY
Thriftily; prudently. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - SPARSELY
In a scattered or sparse manner. - DESPARPLE
To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - SUPREMITY
Supremacy. Fuller. - DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - FLUOR SPAR
See FLUORITE - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent