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.
• 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
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.