Word Meaning

Find the meaning or definition of a word or phrase in English


Meaning of moderate

- Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
- 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.
- Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
- To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
- To preside as a moderator.

Crossword clue for moderate

- Abate (of storm)
- Average style and speed
- Dare me to become referee
- Fair referee
- Kept within due bounds
- Making sense
- Meaningful (pause)
- Means speed is not excessive
- Medium (level)
- Mild
- Not extreme
- Regulate
- Tone down