Crossword-Solution: MODERATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moderate | a. | Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained |
| Moderate | a. | Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. |
| Moderate | a. | Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. |
| Moderate | a. | Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist. |
| Moderate | a. | Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. |
| Moderate | a. | Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. |
| Moderate | a. | Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. |
| Moderate | a. | Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. |
| Moderate | 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. |
| Moderate | 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. |
| Moderate | v. t. | To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod. |
| Moderate | v. i. | To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated. |
| Moderate | v. i. | To preside as a moderator. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MODERATE (5)
During the period 1988-90 Belgium's economic performance was marked by buoyant output growth, moderate inflation, and a substantial external surplus.
Bathsheba is only playing with you: you are too poor for her, as I said; so give up wasting your time about a great match you’ll never make for a moderate and rightful match you may make to-morrow; take up your carpet-bag, turn about, leave Weatherbury now, this night, and you shall take fifty pounds with you.
The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature, the moderate proportion of intellect, and the very trifling admixture of moral and spiritual ingredients; these latter qualities, indeed, being in barely enough measure to keep the old gentleman from walking on all-fours.
During the period 1988-90, Belgium's economic performance was marked by 4% average growth, moderate inflation, and a substantial external surplus.
The _first_ was to obey the laws and customs of my country, adhering firmly to the faith in which, by the grace of God, I had been educated from my childhood and regulating my conduct in every other matter according to the most moderate opinions, and the farthest removed from extremes, which should happen to be adopted in practice with general consent of the most judicious of those among whom I might be living.
Quotes with MODERATE (3)
It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...
I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be su…
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1942–2022).