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Moderate

adjective

1.

Being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme. "A moderate income" , "A moderate fine" , "Moderate demands" , "A moderate estimate" , "A moderate eater" , "Moderate success" , "A kitchen of moderate size" , "The X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart"

2.

Not extreme. Synonym: temperate. "Temperate in his response to criticism"

3.

Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes. Synonym: restrained. "Restrained in his response"

verb

(past & past part. moderated; pres. part. moderating)

1.

Preside over. Synonyms: chair, lead.

2.

Make less fast or intense.

3.

Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits. Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in. "Hold your tongue" , "Hold your temper" , "Control your anger"

4.

Make less severe or harsh. Synonyms: mince, soften.

5.

Make less strong or intense; soften. Synonyms: tame, tone down. "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

6.

Restrain. Synonyms: chasten, temper.

noun

1.

A person who takes a position in the political center. Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist.

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"Moderate" Quotes from Famous Books

... evidently in great trouble, so let the bard leave off, that we may all enjoy ourselves, hosts and guest alike. This will be much more as it should be, for all these festivities, with the escort and the presents that we are making with so much good will are wholly in his honour, and any one with even a moderate amount of right feeling knows that he ought to treat a guest and a suppliant as though he ...

— The Odyssey • Homer

... took a little Quixotism of imagination to consider as castles all these four-story brick houses with placards affixed of "Rooms to be let," and to secure the most eligible corner in one of these at moderate rent. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various

... Blankenese itself consists of cottages, grouped in a picturesque manner round the Sulberg, a hill from which the traveller enjoys a very extended view over the great plain, in which it is the only elevated point. The course of the Elbe, as it winds at moderate speed towards the sea, is here to be traced almost ...

— Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North • Ida Pfeiffer

... Cambridge undergraduate. He was neither clever, nor industrious, nor very ambitious; he thought that a moderate place was quite good enough for him to aim at, and he found that his unknown and obscure tutor by correspondence was cheap and obliging, and willing to take trouble, and quite as efficacious for ...

— In Luck at Last • Walter Besant

... than he under theirs. The fact is that his temper was so amiable and conciliatory, his conduct so rational, never urging impossibilities, or even things unreasonably inconvenient to them, in short so moderate and attentive to their difficulties, as well as our own, that what his enemies called subserviency I saw was only that reasonable disposition which, sensible that advantages are not all to be on one side, yielding what is just and liberal, is the more certain of obtaining liberality ...

— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.

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